Posts Tagged “Tour de France”

The Giant of the Tourmalet

• June 6th, 2015
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Created in 1999, the Tourmalet Giant is a homage to the winner of the first stage of the Tour de France in the Pyrenees, Octave Lapize. In the Winter the sculpture shelters from the snow in the Laurent Fignon centre in Gerde. On the first Saturday in the month of June, he climbs back to […]

Tour de France 2013

• October 24th, 2012
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This morning the Tour de France 2013 route was announced at a Press Conference in Paris. After teasing us all with speeches and an excellent montage film of the highlights of the 2012 Tour (is it just us who still get goosebumps watching Mark Cavendish win on the Champs Elysees and Wiggo take the crown?), […]