Tour de France 2009

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The 2009 Tour de France is the 96th Tour de France. The official start announcement was made in Monaco and attended by Prince Albert on 14 December 2007


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Le Tour de France
Tour de France logo.svg
Race details
Date July
Region France and nearby countries
Local name(s) Le Tour de France (French)
Nickname(s) La Grande Boucle
Discipline Road
Competition Professional
Type Stage race (Grand Tour)
Organiser Amaury Sport Organisation
Race director Christian Prudhomme
History
First edition 1903 (1903)
Editions 98 (2011)
First winner  Maurice Garin (FRA)
Most wins  Lance Armstrong (USA) (7)
Most recent  Cadel Evans (AUS)
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2009 Tour de France
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Route of the 2009 Tour de France
Race details
Dates 4–26 July
Stages 21
Distance 3,459.5 km (2,150 mi)
Winning time 85h 48' 35" (40.31 km/h or 25.05 mph)
Palmarès
Winner  Alberto Contador (ESP) (Astana)
Second  Andy Schleck (LUX) (Team Saxo Bank)
Third  Lance Armstrong (USA) (Astana)
Points  Thor Hushovd (NOR) (Cervélo TestTeam)
Mountains None
Youth  Andy Schleck (LUX) (Team Saxo Bank)
Team Astana
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VeloNation - 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
by VeloNation Press at 7:21 AM EST It's still too soon to say if the UCI will remove Saxo Bank's WorldTour licence but if that happens, Tour de France organisers won't guarantee that the team will take part in the race. “It is ASO's management which ...


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Washington Post - 4 days, 9 hours ago
His legacy as a seven-time Tour de France champion endures. Federal prosecutors dropped their investigation of Armstrong on Friday, ending a nearly two-year effort aimed at determining whether the world's most famous cyclist and his teammates joined in ...
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San Francisco Chronicle - 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
8 (Bloomberg) -- FBI agents and US prosecutors asked lawyers for seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong about the cyclist's complaint of alleged leaks about a grand jury probe of his team, one of his attorneys said. Elliot Peters, an attorney ...
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Cavendish on Goss, rainbow jersey and Tour de France
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In 2009 I won a race one week after Tour de France. It wasn't the Olympic Games, it was the Bochum Giro, but it proves that it can be done. "It will be hard to pick myself up after the Olympics though. It will be a long July.
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Haute Living - 18 hours, 34 minutes ago
by Ashley Joy Parker From February 10th through the 17th, Tour de France Restaurant Group will celebrate the fifth edition of their much-anticipated Winter Stinky Cheese Festival. The event features som eof Manhattan's best This year's festival has a ...


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