Tour de France

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  1. brithm

    brithm Senior Member

    2022 route announced, same route for the last few years!
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  3. brithm

    brithm Senior Member

    Tour de France 2022

    A decent tour with three excellent stages beginning in Denmark, Slovenian Pogacar the favourite outdone by the Dane Vingegaard set to win the tour, the first Dane to win without a dodgy blood count.

    Pidcock doing a ridiculous decent winning Stage 12 with Froome coming third on the same stage.

    Jumbo Visma has done an astonishing tour entering Paris with Yellow, Green and Polka dot jerseys winning six stages of the tour, with Jumbo Vismas van Aert beating Sagan's record for number of points for the Green jersey.

    Geraint Thomas makes it onto he podium too.

    The tour was missing Julian Alaphilippe & Mark Cavendish.
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  4. Owen

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    I see they went through Guernica / Gernika today.

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  5. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    I didn't know that the Tour could involve territory outside France!
     
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  6. Tony56

    Tony56 Member Patron

    Generally does - 2014 race had 3 stages in England.
     
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  7. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Just like Eurovision with Australia and Rugby home nations now including Italy and Argentina
     
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  8. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Picasso entrusted his Guernica painting to the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1940. I saw it several times on grade school field trips but didn't understand anything about it except "German Air Force" and "Bombing" at that young age. It was returned to Spain in 1982.



    Establishment in Spain[edit]
    As early as 1968, Franco had expressed an interest in having Guernica come to Spain.[7] However, Picasso refused to allow this until the Spanish people again enjoyed a republic. He later added other conditions, such as the restoration of "public liberties and democratic institutions". Picasso died in 1973. Franco, ten years Picasso's junior, died two years later, in 1975. After Franco's death, Spain was transformed into a democratic constitutional monarchy, ratified by a new constitution in 1978. However, MoMA was reluctant to give up one of its greatest treasures and argued that a monarchy did not represent the republic that had been stipulated in Picasso's will as a condition for the painting's delivery. Under great pressure from a number of observers, MoMA finally ceded the painting to Spain in 1981. The Spanish historian Javier Tusell was one of the negotiators.[citation needed]

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  9. brithm

    brithm Senior Member

  10. Jonathan Ball

    Jonathan Ball It's a way of life.

    It has since 1954 when the Grand Départ was in Amsterdam. Last year it started in Copenhagen and next year starts in Florence. It's worth noting that Jacques Goddet and Félix Lévitan, who between them ran the Tour for 50 years, had a long held dream of starting the Tour in the United States and utilizing Concorde to bring the riders back to France. Alas for them, it never happened.
    The other two Grand Tours on the calender, the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España also have gone down the same route. As an example, the Giro has in the last few years began in Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands and Hungary. It's a good earner for the Organisers but has attracted increasing criticism for it's less-than Environmentally friendly requirements.
     
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  11. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Any WWII related sites to watch for this year?
     
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  12. Owen

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    Might be some lesser known places.

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  13. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    If not before Dave then though a few weeks away certainly stage 20.

    The second link below has twelve pages of wartime photographs. People, places, tanks, artillery, the human aspect to the fore.

    Always remember, never forget,

    Jim.

    Heritage - Stage 20 - Belfort > Le Markstein Fellering - Tour de France 2023

    ImagesDéfense - Bataille pour la libération de Belfort - Campagne de France - Libération de la France - Deuxième guerre mondiale - Chronologie - Nos collections
     
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  14. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Thanks Jim. I'm looking forward to some shot of that fort.
     
  15. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Stage 11 had a camper with a V-2 on it

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  16. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Exciting stages being ruined by cars, motorcycles and fan interference.

    Vingegaard had to unclip on a 20 percent grade stuck behind a car.
     
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    brithm Senior Member

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