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Stage 12Aurillac – Villeneuve-sur-Lot11 July 2024204 km Battle of the Golden Spurs (1302) A coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France’s royal… Read More »Tour de France 2024 Stage 12 (Aurillac – Villeneuve-sur-Lot 204 km)
Stage 10Orléans – Saint-Amand-Montrond9 July 2024
The 6th stage of Giro d’Italia welcomes the peloton with three gravel sectors. Stage 6 Viareggio -Rapolano Terme 9 May 2024 180 km MAP
Oropa (or the sanctruary of Oropa), located in Piedmont, was included in the program of Giro d’Italia six times. First time in 1963, when Vico… Read More »Oropa at Giro d’Italia
Stage 8 Auxois – Colombey-les-Deux-Églises 6 July 2024 176 km
Stage 7 Nuits-Saint-Georges – Gevrey-Chambertin 5 July 2024 25 km
While waiting for the Giro d’Italia 2024 route presentation (mid-October 2023), why not reading some interesting stories from the history of Giro d’Italia?
Stage 5 Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne – Saint-Vulbas 3 July 2024 177 km Tour de France 2024 on PelotonTales.
Snow at Tour de France is quite rare, but not impossible, as the image of Hector Heusghem at Tour de France 1923 proves. Belgian cyclist… Read More »Snow at Tour de France 1923