Tour de Francen.
/tʊə də ˈfrɒns//tɔː də ˈfrɑːns/ The name of an annual cycling stage race on the public roads of France (with some crossing into adjoining countries), now typically over about 4,000 kilometres including mountainous terrain.
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1922 Times 24 July 7/5 The ‘Tour de France’ cyclist competition..ended to-day.
1926 E. Hemingway Sun also Rises iii. xix. 247 Bicycle road-racing was the only sport in the world, he said. Had I ever followed the Tour de France?
1967 Guardian 14 July 1/2 Tommy Simpson, the British cyclist, died early this evening after collapsing during a mountain stage of the Tour de France.
1978 Listener 6 July 15/1 These days find Paris in a sort of limbo... There is, it is true, the Tour de France to distract us in the weeks ahead.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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