The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.

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Amaury Sport Organisation

The Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO and also A.S.O.) is a private company, founded in 1992, that is part of the privately-owned French media group Éditions Philippe Amaury (EPA).

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Amiens

Amiens (English: or;; Anmien, Anmiens or Anmyin) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille.

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André Chalmel

André Chalmel (born 10 October 1949) is a French former road racing cyclist, born in Dol-de-Bretagne (Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany).

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André Dierickx

André Dierickx (born 29 October 1947) is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist who competed between 1969 and 1981.

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André Mollet (cyclist)

André Mollet (born 13 July 1949) is a French racing cyclist.

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Andrés Oliva

Andrés Oliva (7 December 1948 – 5 July 2023) was a Spanish professional cyclist.

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Angers

Angers is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris.

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Auxerre

Auxerre is the capital (prefecture) of the Yonne department and the fourth-largest city in the Burgundy historical region southeast of Paris.

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Avoriaz

Avoriaz is a French mountain resort in the heart of the Portes du Soleil.

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Évian-les-Bains

Évian-les-Bains, or simply Évian (Èvian, Évyan, or L'Èvian), is a commune in Eastern France, by the border with Switzerland.

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Bagnères-de-Luchon

Bagnères-de-Luchon (Banhèras de Luishon), also referred to as just Luchon, is a commune and spa town in the Haute-Garonne department in the Occitanie region of south-western France.

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Belfort

Belfort (archaic Beffert, Beffort) is a city in northeastern France, situated approximately from the Swiss border.

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Bernard Becaas

Bernard Becaas (1955–2000) was a French cyclist.

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Bernard Bourreau

Bernard Bourreau (born 2 September 1951) is a French former cyclist.

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Bernard Hinault

Bernard Hinault (born 14 November 1954) is a French former professional road cyclist.

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Bernard Vallet

Bernard Vallet (born January 18, 1954, in Vienne, Isère) is a French former road bicycle racer who won the mountains classification in the 1982 Tour de France.

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Bernardo Alfonsel

Bernardo Alfonsel Lopez (born 24 February 1954) is a Spanish former racing cyclist.

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Bert Pronk

Bert Pronk (24 October 1950 – 15 March 2005) was a Dutch road cyclist who won the Tour de Luxembourg and Ronde van Nederland in 1977.

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BN DeStem

BN DeStem is a regional Dutch newspaper.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Bordèu; Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France.

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Bruno Leali

Bruno Leali (born 6 March 1958 in Roe Volciano) is an Italian former professional racing cyclist.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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Captieux

Captieux (Capsiuts) is a commune of Southwestern France, located in the Gironde department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2015: Aquitaine).

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Casquette

A casquette is a peaked cotton cap traditionally worn by road cyclists.

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Champs-Élysées

The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, long and wide, running between the Place de la Concorde in the east and the Place Charles de Gaulle in the west, where the Arc de Triomphe is located.

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Champs-Élysées stage in the Tour de France

Every year between 1975 and 2023, the final stage of the Tour de France has concluded on the Champs-Élysées, an emblematic street of the city of Paris.

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Christian Jourdan

Christian Jourdan (born 31 December 1954) is a former French racing cyclist.

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Christian Levavasseur

Christian Levavasseur (born 6 March 1956 in Dinan) is a retired French cyclist, who won the combativity award in the 1980 Tour de France.

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Christian Poirier

Christian Poirier (born 6 December 1954) is a French former racing cyclist.

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Christian Seznec

Christian Seznec (born 19 November 1952, in Brest) was a French professional road bicycle racer.

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Claude Criquielion

Claude Criquielion (11 January 1957 – 18 February 2015) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who raced between 1979 and 1990.

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Col du Ballon d'Alsace

The Col du Ballon d'Alsace is a mountain pass situated close to the summit of the Ballon d'Alsace in the Vosges Mountains of France.

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Col du Galibier

The Col du Galibier (el.) is a mountain pass in the southern region of the French Dauphiné Alps near Grenoble.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.

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Combativity award

The combativity award is a prize given in road bicycle racing to a stage's or the overall race's most aggressive rider.

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Combativity award in the Tour de France

The combativity award is a prize given in the Tour de France for the most combative rider overall during the race.

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Cycling jersey

A cycling jersey is a specialised jersey for cycling.

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De Waarheid

De Waarheid (literally 'The Truth') was the newspaper of the Communist Party of the Netherlands.

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Deauville

Deauville is a commune in the Calvados department, Normandy, northwestern France.

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Delpher

Delpher is a website providing full-text Dutch-language digitized historical newspapers, books, journals and copy sheets for radio news broadcasts.

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Didier Vanoverschelde

Didier Vanoverschelde (born 5 April 1952) is a former French racing cyclist.

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Dietrich Thurau

Dietrich "Didi" Thurau (born 9 November 1954) is a retired German professional road bicycle racer.

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Dijon

Dijon is a city that serves as the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

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Dominique Sanders

Dominique Sanders (born 16 August 1957) is a former French racing cyclist.

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Dorino Vanzo

Dorino Vanzo (born 22 February 1950) is an Italian racing cyclist.

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Eddy Schepers

Eddy Schepers (born 12 December 1955) is a Belgian former professional cyclist.

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Eulalio García

Eulalio García Pereda (born 11 May 1951) is a former Spanish cyclist.

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Fedor den Hertog

Fedor Iwan den Hertog (20 April 194612 February 2011) was a Dutch racing cyclist.

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Ferdinand Julien

Ferdinand Julien (born 30 June 1946) is a former French racing cyclist.

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Fleurance

Fleurance (Florença) is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.

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Francisco Galdós

Francisco Galdós Gauna (born May 6, 1947 in Lasarte, Álava) is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist.

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Frans Van Looy

Frans Van Looy (26 August 1950 – 20 September 2019) was a Belgian cyclist.

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Gazet van Antwerpen

The (popularly named De Frut) is a Belgian newspaper in Antwerp and Flanders, published by Concentra.

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General classification in the Tour de France

The general classification of the Tour de France is the most important classification of the race and determines the winner of the race.

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Gerhard Schönbacher

Gerhard Schönbacher (born 25 January 1954) is a former professional cyclist.

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Gerrie Knetemann

Gerard Friedrich "Gerrie" Knetemann (6 March 1951 in Amsterdam – 2 November 2004 in Bergen, North Holland) was a Dutch road bicycle racer who won the 1978 World Championship.

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Gery Verlinden

Gery Verlinden (born 1 May 1954) is a Belgian former racing cyclist.

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Gilbert Chaumaz

Gilbert Chaumaz (born 12 January 1953) is a French racing cyclist.

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Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle

Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle (born 25 August 1954) is a former French professional road racing cyclist who was a specialist at one-day classic cycling races.

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Gilbert Le Lay

Gilbert Le Lay (born 17 October 1952) is a French racing cyclist.

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Giovanni Battaglin

Giovanni Battaglin (born 22 July 1951) is an Italian professional road racing cyclist.

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Glauco Santoni

Glauco Santoni (born 19 January 1952) is an Italian former professional racing cyclist.

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Grand Tour (cycling)

In road bicycle racing, a Grand Tour is one of the three major European professional cycling stage races: Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, and Vuelta a España.

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Guido Van Calster

Guido Van Calster (born 6 February 1956) is a retired Belgian racing cyclist.

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Hendrik Devos

Hendrik Devos (born 13 October 1955) is a former Belgian racing cyclist.

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Henk Lubberding

Henk Lubberding (born 4 August 1953 in Voorst) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer.

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Hennie Kuiper

Hendrikus Andreas "Hennie" Kuiper (born 3 February 1949) is a Dutch former professional road racing cyclist.

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Henri Desgrange

Henri Desgrange (31 January 1865 – 16 August 1940) was a French bicycle racer and sports journalist.

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Hors catégorie

Hors catégorie (HC) is a French term used in stage bicycle races to designate a climb that is "beyond categorization".

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Hubert Arbès

Hubert Arbès (born 9 January 1950) is a French former racing cyclist.

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Hubert Mathis

Hubert Mathis (12 March 1950) was a French professional road bicycle racer.

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Individual time trial

An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: contre la montre – literally "against the watch", in Italian: tappa a cronometro "stopwatch stage").

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The intermediate sprints classification, also known as the points chauds classification (French for "hot points"), was a secondary competition in the Tour de France that was contested between 1966 and 1989.

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Jacques Anquetil

Jacques Anquetil (8 January 1934 – 18 November 1987) was a French road racing cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964.

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Jacques Bossis

Jacques Bossis (born 22 December 1952) is a French former professional road bicycle racer.

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Jacques Esclassan

Jacques Esclassan (born 3 September 1948) is a French former road bicycle racer who won the green jersey in the 1977 Tour de France.

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Jacques Michaud

Jacques Michaud (born 11 July 1951) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who won the eighteenth stage in the 1983 Tour de France.

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Jan Raas

Jan Raas (born 8 November 1952) is a Dutch former professional cyclist whose 115 wins include the 1979 World Road Race Championship in Valkenburg, he also won the Tour of Flanders in 1979 and 1983, Paris–Roubaix in 1982 and Milan–San Remo in 1977.

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Jean Chassang

Jean Chassang (born 8 February 1951) is a former French racing cyclist.

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Jean-François Pescheux

Jean-François Pescheux (born 21 March 1952) is a French racing cyclist.

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Jean-Louis Gauthier

Jean-Louis Gauthier (22 December 1955 – 11 July 2014) was a French professional road bicycle racer.

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Jean-Marie Michel

Jean-Marie Michel (born 28 April 1955) is a former French racing cyclist.

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Jean-René Bernaudeau

Jean-René Bernaudeau (born 8 July 1956) is a French former road bicycle racer, who competed professionally from 1978 to 1988.

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Jo Maas

Jo Maas (Eijsden, 6 October 1954) is a retired Dutch professional road bicycle racer.

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Joaquim Agostinho

Joaquim Fernandes Agostinho, OIH (7 April 1943 – 10 May 1984) was a Portuguese professional bicycle racer.

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Joël Gallopin

Joël Gallopin (born 29 January 1953) is a French former racing cyclist.

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Johan van der Velde

Johan van der Velde (born 12 December 1956 in Rijsbergen) is a former Dutch cyclist.

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Joop Zoetemelk

Hendrik Gerardus Joseph "Joop" Zoetemelk (born 3 December 1946) is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist.

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Jos Deschoenmaecker

Jozef "Jos" De Schoenmaecker (born 2 October 1947, in Mechelen) is a former Belgian professional road bicycle racer.

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Jos Jacobs

Jos Jacobs (born 28 January 1953 in Vosselaar) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer.

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José De Cauwer

José De Cauwer (born 25 September 1949) is a Belgian former professional racing cyclist and team manager.

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Joseph Borguet

Joseph Borguet (born 16 April 1951) is a former Belgian racing cyclist.

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Joseph Jacobs

Joseph Jacobs (29 August 1854 – 30 January 1916) was a New South Welsh-born British-Jewish folklorist, translator, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English folklore.

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Knut Knudsen

Knut Knudsen (born 12 October 1950) is a retired Norwegian road and track cyclist.

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Lanterne rouge

The lanterne rouge is the competitor in last place in the Tour de France.

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Le Havre

Le Havre (Lé Hâvre) is a major port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France.

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Le Perreux-sur-Marne

Le Perreux-sur-Marne (literally Le Perreux on Marne) is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France.

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Leo van Vliet

Leonardus Quirinus Machutus ("Leo") van Vliet (born 15 November 1955) was a professional racing cyclist from 1978 to 1986.

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Les Menuires is a ski resort in the Belleville valley of Les Trois Vallées between Saint-Martin-de-Belleville and Val Thorens.

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List of highest points reached in the Tour de France

The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France, generally considered the most famous bicycle race in the world.

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Lucien Didier

Lucien Didier (born 5 August 1950) is a former Luxembourgian cyclist.

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Lucien Van Impe

Lucien Van Impe (born 20 October 1946) is a Belgian cyclist, who competed professionally between 1969 and 1987.

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Ludo Delcroix

Ludo Delcroix (born 28 October 1950) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer, who won the 9th stage in the 1979 Tour de France.

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Ludo Peeters

Ludo Peeters (born 9 August 1953) is a former Belgian professional road bicycle racer.

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Lysiane Lauret Challenge

The Lysiane Lauret Challenge or Trophée Lysiane Lauret (earlier known as Morzine Avoriaz and Danse sur Glace de Grenoble) was an international figure skating competition held in Morzine, France.

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Manfred Donike

Manfred Donike (23 August 1933, Köttingen, Rhine Province – 21 August 1995, on a flight from Frankfurt am Main to Johannesburg) was a German cyclist and chemist, known for his research on doping.

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Marc Demeyer

Marc Demeyer (19 April 1950 – 20 January 1982) was a professional road racing cyclist from Avelgem, Belgium.

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Mariano Martínez (cyclist)

Mariano Martínez (born 20 September 1948 in Burgos) is a Spanish-French former professional road racing cyclist.

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Mass start

Mass start is a format of starting in some racing sports such as long-distance running in sport of athletics, speed skating, long-distance cross-country skiing and biathlon.

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Masson (publisher)

Masson was a French publisher which specialized principally in medical and scientific books and journals.

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Maurice Le Guilloux

Maurice Le Guilloux (born 14 May 1950) is a French former racing cyclist.

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Maurizio Bellet

Maurizio Bellet (born 18 November 1952) is an Italian former professional racing cyclist.

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Metz

Metz (Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then Mettis) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers.

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Michel Balbuena

Michel Balbuena (born 7 August 1954) is a Spanish racing cyclist.

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Michel Laurent

Michel Laurent (born 10 August 1953) is a French former professional road racing cyclist.

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Michel Pollentier

Michel Pollentier (born 13 February 1951 in Diksmuide, West Flanders) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer.

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Morzine

Morzine (Morzena), alternatively known as Morzine-Avoriaz, is an alpine commune on the Swiss border in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France.

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Mountains classification in the Tour de France

The mountains classification is a secondary competition in the Tour de France, that started in 1933.

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Mundo Deportivo

Mundo Deportivo (meaning Sports World in English) is a Spanish nationwide daily sports newspaper published in Barcelona.

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Nazzareno Berto

Nazzareno Berto (born 20 February 1957) is an Italian former racing cyclist.

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Neuville-de-Poitou

Neuville-de-Poitou is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.

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Nogent-sur-Marne

Nogent-sur-Marne is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France.

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Paris–Roubaix

Paris–Roubaix is a one-day professional bicycle road race in northern France, starting north of Paris and finishing in Roubaix, at the border with Belgium.

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Patrice Thévenard

Patrice Thévenard (born 25 October 1954) is a former French racing cyclist.

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Patrick Bonnet

Patrick Bonnet (born 6 September 1957) is a former French racing cyclist.

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Patrick Friou

Patrick Friou (born 8 January 1955) is a former French racing cyclist.

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Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Pau is a commune overlooking the Pyrenees, and prefecture of the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

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Paul Sherwen

Paul Sherwen (7 June 1956 – 2 December 2018) was an English professional racing cyclist and later a cycling broadcaster, notably covering the Tour de France.

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Paul Wellens (cyclist)

Paul Wellens (born 27 June 1952 in Hasselt) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer.

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Peloton

In a road bicycle race, the peloton (from French, originally meaning 'platoon') is the main group or pack of riders.

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Philippe Tesnière

Philippe Tesnière was a professional cyclist between 1978 and 1981, finishing in last place in the 1978 Tour de France.

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Pierre Bazzo

Pierre Bazzo (born 17 January 1954) is a French former racing cyclist.

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Pierre-Raymond Villemiane

Pierre-Raymond Villemiane (Pineuil, 12 March 1951) was a French professional road bicycle racer.

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Points classification in the Tour de France

The points classification is a secondary competition in the Tour de France, which started in 1953.

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Pol Verschuere

Pol Verschuere (Kortrijk, 18 January 1955) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer.

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Polka dot

Red polka dots on a yellow backgroundThe polka dot is a pattern consisting of an array of large filled circles of the same size.

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Raymond Martin (cyclist)

Raymond Martin (born 22 May 1949) is a former French road bicycle racer.

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Raymond Poulidor

Raymond Poulidor (15 April 1936 – 13 November 2019), nicknamed "Pou-Pou", was a French professional racing cyclist, who rode for his entire career.

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René Bittinger

René Bittinger (born 9 October 1954, in Villé) is a French former professional road bicycle racer.

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René Dillen

René Dillen (born 18 June 1951) is a Belgian former professional racing cyclist.

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René Martens

René Martens (Hasselt, 27 May 1955) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer.

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Robert Alban

Robert Alban (9 April 1952) was a French professional road bicycle racer.

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Rochefort, Belgium

Rochefort (Rotchfoirt) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Namur, Belgium, close to the Ardennes.

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Roger Legeay

Roger Legeay (born 8 August 1949, Beaufay) is a French former professional racing cyclist and cycling team manager.

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Roubaix

Roubaix (or; Robaais; Roboais; Picard: Roubés) is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan area on the Belgian border.

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Rudy Pevenage

Rudy Pévenage (15 June 1954) is a former Belgian cyclist, and later in his career team coach of cycling teams such as,,, and.

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Saint-Brieuc

Saint-Brieuc (Breton: Sant-Brieg, Gallo: Saent-Berioec) is a city in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France.

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Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët

Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.

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Saint-Priest, Metropolis of Lyon

Saint-Priest (Sant-Priést) is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in east-south France.

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Sean Kelly (cyclist)

John James 'Sean' Kelly (born 24 May 1956) is an Irish former professional road bicycle racer, one of the most successful road cyclists of the 1980s, and one of the finest Classics riders of all time.

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Serge Beucherie

Serge Beucherie (born 17 January 1955) is a former French racing cyclist.

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Serge Parsani

Serge Parsani (born 28 August 1952 in Gorcy, France) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, who won one stage in the 1979 Tour de France.

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Souvenir Henri Desgrange

The Souvenir Henri Desgrange is an award and cash prize given in the yearly running of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tour races.

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Stefan Mutter

Stefan Mutter (born 3 October 1956) is a former professional road bicycle racer from Switzerland.

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Superbagnères

Superbagnères is a ski resort above the town of Bagnères-de-Luchon in the French department of Haute-Garonne in the Midi-Pyrénées region.

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Sven-Åke Nilsson

Sven-Åke Nilsson (born 13 September 1951) is a Swedish retired road racing cyclist.

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Team classification in the Tour de France

The team classification is a prize given in the Tour de France to the best team in the race.

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Team time trial

A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events).

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Tour de France

The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race held primarily in France.

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Ueli Sutter

Ueli Sutter (born 16 March 1947) is a Swiss former cyclist.

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Willy Teirlinck

Willy Teirlinck (born 10 August 1948) is a retired Belgian road cyclist.

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Wim Myngheer

Wim Myngheer (born 23 March 1955) is a Belgian racing cyclist.

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Young rider classification

Young rider classification (classement général des jeunes) is a cycling jersey competition in multi-day stage race events, such as the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and many others, which awards the current leader by overall time for riders below the age of twenty-six years (or twenty-three years) depending on the race rules.

See 1979 Tour de France and Young rider classification

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Tour_de_France

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