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The complete highlights from 2008
Running from Saturday July
5th to Sunday July 27th 2008, the 95th Tour de France was made up of 21
stages and covered a total distance of 3,500 kilometres.
These 21 stages had the following profiles:
- 10 flat stages,
- 5 mountain stages,
- 4 medium mountain stages,
- 2 individual time-trial stages.
Distinctive aspects of the race:
- 4 mountain finishes,
- 2 rest days,
- 82 kilometres of individual time-trials,
- 19 Category 1, Category 2 and highest level passes will be climbed.
It's a fundamental principle: a Tour that starts in Brittany finishes
with the crowning of a cycling giant. Look at the evidence: Brest 1952:
1st Coppi; Rennes 1964: 1st Anquetil; Brest 1974: 1st Merckx; Plumelec
1985: 1st Hinault; Saint-Brieuc 1995: 1st Indurain!
Five stars
on a flawless prize list. Coppi, Anquetil, Merckx, Hinault, Indurain:
five cycling legends who, in turn on the Tour, garnered the force in
Brittany to clinch an ultimate triumph in this prized race three weeks
later. Is this not the stuff of tales and legends, a tribute to the
doyen of cycling races from its greatest riders?
For the first
time in more than forty years, the 2008 Tour de France started with a
straight stage. Usually only a small number of specialists in solitary
effort can aspire to winning the first yellow jersey. This year
however, near to two hundred riders dreamed that this Holy Grail was
within their reach. A remarkable first stage, from Brest and its great
sailing ships to Plumelec, where bold challengers, sprinters and
potential candidates for final victory all had the opportunity to win
fame.
In the land of Bobet and Hinault the Tour de France is
at home. Brittany wanted the Tour. The Tour wanted Brittany. Roll on
2008!
Rated: E (Exampt from Classification)
Duration: 525 mins
Released: 2008
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