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Le Tour de France
The Yorkshire Grand Départ 2014
Picture © Graham Watson
KS2/KS3 Resource Pack
Version control: Last updated November 2013
Section A: The Yorkshire Tour
This section provides you with a wealth of useful background information
on the Tour de France and the Yorkshire Grand Départ. It also
contains specific cycling information which will help you
set the scene for your students on the theme.
Women in cycling
Page A13
Story of the Safe Cycling
Tour de France Giants of
Page A17
Page A6 Yorkshire
Cycling Cycling for
Countdown Page A10 Healthy Living
Page 19
to the Grand
Depart
Page A3 Cycling for All
Page A21
Scandal &
ethics
Page A24
Celebration, Music
and Culture
Page A28
Yorkshire Cycling
stories
Page A31
Curriculum Spokes
Section B
Useful links
& resources
Section C
Le Tour de France: The Yorkshire Grand Départ 2014 KS2/KS3 Resource Pack
Introduction
Welcome to the ‘Le Tour de France : The Yorkshire Grand Départ,
2014’. KS2/3 Resource Pack designed for teachers, community
groups and parents of young people aged from 7 to 14.
through its glorious hills and dales, and
Le Tour de France or La Grande Boucle charismatic towns and cities. The third
(the Big Loop), as it is nicknamed, is the stage will progress from Cambridge
greatest and most challenging cycle race to London before the race crosses the
in the world. First organised in 1903, it Channel back into France.
is an annual multiple stage bicycle race
that takes place primarily in France. Up This gives us a fantastic opportunity
until 1954 the whole race took place to get involved in the Countdown and
exclusively in France. It was decided in the Celebrations that will form part
to start the race in the Netherlands that of the race itself! There are many ways
year, so the first ‘foreign’ Grand Départ of using the Tour de France theme to
got pedalling in Amsterdam! In recent enhance the school curriculum, provide
years le Grand Départ has pushed off and contribute to community activities
outside France every two or three years. and be involved in the exciting build-up
In 2014 the Tour de France will start in to this evocative race.
England’s biggest county – Yorkshire,
where the first two stages will be ridden This Resource pack contains information
and stories, facts and figures about this
exhilarating event together with hot-spot
suggested activities and a wide variety
of curriculum ‘spokes’ full of ideas and
activities that will bring ‘La tête de la
course’, chased by ‘le peloton’ into
your classroom. The aim is to motivate
and inspire your students and young
people – not only to jump on their bikes,
but to enjoy exercise with moving scenery.
“It never gets easier.
You just go faster.”
Greg Lemond
Introduction A1
Le Tour de France: The Yorkshire Grand Départ 2014 KS2/KS3 Resource Pack
Hot-spot Sprint Activity
Organise your own Countdown to le Grand Départ 2014 in Yorkshire and be at
‘La Tête de la Course’‘! (See French words page B15 )
Your class or group collectively could form le peloton, from which individual
students will sprint away at various stages (les étapes) as they develop their
skills, knowledge and understanding to take the different jerseys!
Why not give your students the task of designing your own coloured jersey
system for achievement?
Le maillot jaune Le maillot vert Le maillot à pois Le maillot blanc
(yellow jersey) (green jersey) (polka dot jersey) (white jersey)
the leader best sprinter best climber best young rider
We also aim to investigate the impact
this race has made on people since
the first pedal turned in 1903 and why
spectators turn out in their thousands.
It is much more than just a French TDF Pedal
cycle race – it has become a worldwide
institution! Pushing Fact
Q: What is the la
st
We hope that your students will embrace rider known as,
and
the wide and varied perspective that why?
the ‘Tour de France’ brings with it –
qualities such as teamwork, challenge,
perseverance, determination and
courage. Through the variety of
curriculum activities and useful links
they will learn, enjoy, be inspired and end of a train!
ultimately be a part of and celebrate so called after the red light on the tail
Yorkshire’s Grand Départ on Saturday A: La Lanterne Rouge – the ‘red light’,
5th and Sunday 6th July 2014!
Introduction A2
Le Tour de France: The Yorkshire Grand Départ 2014 KS2/KS3 Resource Pack
The Yorkshire Grand Départ
Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th July
The world’s greatest cycle race will start in England’s largest
county on 5th and 6th July 2014 and will bring the world –
either physically or via the media – to Yorkshire!
This will be the first time that Le Tour has The first stage takes the riders up hill
visited the North of England. In 2007 the and down dale through the outstanding
Grand Départ took place in south east scenery of the glorious Yorkshire Dales
England and London. through picturesque towns and villages
ending with a sprint finish in the beautiful
The route will take the cyclists through spa town of Harrogate.
York, Leeds, Harrogate and Sheffield,
and many towns and villages along the Richmond
way, so this is a great opportunity for Muker
Healaugh
everyone to watch the spectacle and B6270
be involved. It is certain that the route A1M
will be one huge festival as Yorkshire Aysgarth Leyburn
Bedale
pulls out the stops with celebrations Hawes Bainbridge
West Burton
and activities to speed the riders on A6108
their way. As the peloton flashes by, the
publicity caravan of floats, media and Buckden
officials is a spectacle in itself and takes Kettlewell
Ripon
an hour to pass by! B6160
Grassington A61
Threshfield
Stage 1: Saturday 5th July 2014
Leeds – Yorkshire Dales – Harrogate: Hetton FINISH
190km (120 miles) B6265
A59
Harrogate
Skipton Ilkley START
Starting at the grand Leeds Town Hall, Race Otley Harewood
A65
the route will progress through lovely Neutral Arthington
Yorkshire scenery – Harewood – Otley start Keighley
Bingley
Shipley Moortown
– Ilkley – Skipton – Aysgarth – Hawes – Support Haworth
A6120
Reeth – Leyburn – Ripon – Harrogate vehicles
Countdown to the Yorkshire Grand Départ A3
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A1M
Stage 2: Sunday 6th July 2014
York – Pennines – Peak District - Knaresborough START
A59 York
Sheffield: 200km (125 miles)
A59 Harrogate
Skipton
A65
A6034 Ilkley Wetherby
Starting at the great historic City of York Silsden
A64
surrounded by ancient Roman walls Keighley
the route will progress through quaint A1M
Knaresborough – Silsden – Keighley – A6033
M1
Hebden Bridge – Elland – Huddersfield A65 Mytholmroyd
– Holmfirth – ending in Sheffield, which Halifax Dewsbury
M62
B6113 Wakefield
is fast becoming one of Europe’s great A58
Huddersfield A1M
sporting centres. M62
M1
Holmfirth
The second stage takes in some glorious Barnsley
steep climbs including the magnificent A628 A616
Cragg Vale climb from Mytholmroyd to Stocksbridge
Blackstone Edge, which just happens FINISH
Race Sheffield
to be the longest continuous ascent in
England! This should provide a good Neutral start
warm up for the later mountain stages. Support vehicles M1
Stage 3: Monday 7th July 2014
START
Cambridge Cambridge – London: 169km (105
Great Shelford miles)
A1301 The Tour de France moves out of
Haverhill
Royston
Yorkshire and into Cambridgeshire for
Saffron Walden
Stage 3 Starting in Cambridge – Saffron
Great Sampford
A1 Walden – Epping – Woodford Green
Welwyn Finchingfield A1053
–South Woodford – Walthamstow –
Garden
City M11
Braintree
Leyton – Olympic Park – Docklands –
Stevenage
Bishop’s
Felsted
Embankment – the Mall
Stortford
This will be quite a flat stage in contrast
Harlow
Chelmsford to the circuitous, hilly Yorkshire stages,
Epping
Writtle
and should promise an exciting sprint
M25 finish on The Mall in front of Buckingham
Chingford Chigwell Brentwood
Palace.
M1
Basildon
FINISH Wanstead
London Stepney Barking
M25
Woolwich
Kensington Lambeth Greenwich
Chelsea
Dartford
Countdown to the Yorkshire Grand Départ A4
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Ypres
The Tour de France Le Touquet-Paris-Plage Lille
Arenberg Porte du Hainaut
Arras
machine then crosses the
channel to hurtle through
Reims
the French countryside, PARIS
tackle the high mountains Champs-Élysées Épernay
Évry Nancy
and on to the iconic Gérardmer
sprint finish at les
La Planche des Belles Filles
Champs Elysées in Paris. Besançon
Mulhouse
Visit the Welcome to
Bourg-en-Bresse
Yorkshire Website to find Oyonnax
out more and follow the
Countdown to le Grand Périgueux
Saint-Étienne Chamrousse
Départ 2014, Bergerac
Grenoble
www.yorkshire.com Tallard Risoul
Maubourguet
Pays du Val d’Adour Nîmes
Pau
Saint-Gaudens
Hautacam Carcassonne
Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d’Adet
Bagnères-de-Luchon
Hot-spot
Sprint Activity:
• Challenge your students to set up
tourism businesses and compete
with each other to come up with TDF Pedal
the best ideas to bring visitors to Pushing Fact
your town or village or the nearest Q: In 1954 for th
e first
place where the Tour will be time the Tour did
passing through not
start in France.
Where
Or did this Grand D
épart
• Set your students the challenge take place?
to set up their own businesses to
design, make and market a special
souvenir or Tour de France product
to sell to local people and visitors
to the region.
• Invite a representative from Visit
York, Welcome to Yorkshire or a
local business to judge the Tourism
ideas, Souvenirs or Tour de France
Products A: The Netherlands
Countdown to the Yorkshire Grand Départ A5
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The Story of
Le Tour de France
2,428km in a circular route through six
stages. Eighteen days later twenty one
cyclists made the finish line back in
Le Premier Grand Départ Paris. The very first winner was Maurice
1st July 1903 Garin. Le Tour de France was born!
It may seem hard to believe, but the very The race has taken place annually
first Tour de France cycle race was not since 1903, except for a gap between
organised to advance competitive sport, but the two World Wars, 1914-18 (the race
to boost sales of a French sporting paper! did actually take place in 1914, as war
broke out in August ) and 1939-45. This
During the late 19th century cycling is why 2013 marks the 100th Tour de
became a very popular pastime, and France, not 2003.
as time went on, organised bike racing
was introduced. Professional cycling As the Tour gained prominence and
became big in France and as Radio, TV popularity the course became longer,
and the internet were yet to emerge, more challenging and hazardous
people’s main source of cycling news mountain climbs were introduced.
and information came from newspapers.
Sports papers such as ‘Le Vélo’ sprung
up to cover cycling in depth and soon
found that by promoting races, then
grew very successful. L’Auto was a
smaller rival paper, which was desperate
to increase circulation. When journalist
Géo Lefèvre proposed the idea of
organising a big cycle race through
France, its editor, Henri Desgrange
seized the opportunity.
On 1st July 1903, sixty intrepid cyclists
set off from the Au Reveil Matin Café
in the suburbs of Paris. They covered
Story of the Tour de France A6
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Routes were designed to be as gruelling
as possible to make the race more of a
spectacle!
Today the Tour de France is organised by
the Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.).
The trials and tribulations of the early
riders are now the stuff of legend, but
they laid strong foundations for the
modern day Tour de France, which
is now watched by millions of people
around the world – along the routes, on neighbouring countries and ‘Le Tour’
TV and via the internet. now hosts riders from all over the world.
In the early days riders had to contend
with sabotage from spectators The Tour de France
determined to ensure their favourites
would win. Throwing tacks on the road
100 years on
was a favourite tactic! (and actually The Race is currently run by the Amaury
happened again in 2012!) Sport Organisation and is a UCI (Union
Cycliste Internationale/International
At stage 10 of the 1910 Race, after Cycling Union) World Tour event.
tackling the hazardous mountain passes
of the Pyrenees for the first time on Together with the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta
roads that were little more than tracks, a Espagna, the Tour de France makes
Octave Lapize famously accused the up cycling’s prestigious Grand Tours.
organisers of being murderers ‘Le Tour’ is traditionally held during July
each year, and while the route changes,
the race contains the same format:
“Vous êtes • Grand Départ
des assassins!” • 21 day long stages over a 23 day
period
The cyclists also had to be mechanics • Each stage averages a distance of
as they had to make their own repairs 413 km
and were penalised if they received any • It alternates between clockwise and
help. As the years have gone by the anticlockwise circuits of France
severe draconian rules and logistics were • 20 – 22 teams compete with 9 riders in
gradually adapted and amended so that each
the Tour has evolved into the iconic, • Team members must be dressed
sophisticated and highly tactical race we identically, except those in coloured
know and love today. jerseys
• Time trials (at least two)
Following the Second World War, • It includes the mountain chains of the
participation gradually extended from Pyrenees and the Alps.
a primarily French field to riders from • The finish on the Champs Élysées
Story of the Tour de France A7
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How does the Tour de
France work?
The organisation and logistics of the TDF Pedal
race can seem totally baffling with its Pushing Fact
complicated points system and peloton Q: Why is the K
tactics. It uses specialised language ing
of the Mountain
containing evocative words such as s jersey
design red polk
domestique, cracking, voiture balai, a
dots on a white
tête de la course, le grimeur and background?
flamme rouge.
This link unravels the mysteries of the
Tour de France through a very clear,
concise and enjoyable animation Useful links:
http://www.boneshakermag.com/ A Documentary by Chickasmith,
le-tour-explained/ ‘100 Years of the Tour de France’
– You Tube
An excellent Documentary was produced
in 2003 tracking the history of this
Hot-spot legendary race and it’s legacy. Entitled
‘100 Years of the Tour de France,
Sprint Activity directed by Christophe Muel, narrated by
Mike Tomalaris, it is shown in three parts:
• Challenge your class/group to 1. Birth of a Legend
develop a quiz on the Tour de 2. The Legend Rolls on
France on key facts 3. Stars of the Road
It contains original footage and provides
• Each team administers their an excellent introduction to the Tour as
Quiz to the whole group well as a good source or material for
various curriculum areas.
sold chocolate bars with polka dot wrappers.
A: The original sponsor, Confectioners Chocolat Poulian
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TIMELINE: ’Le Parcours‘ 1904: 12 of the 27 cyclists were
disqualified for various offences, such
as travelling on trains and hanging
of Le Tour de France onto the backs of cars during the race!
1905: Classification by time changed to a 1910: High 1910: the ‘Broomwagon’
points system. Mountains were introduced mountains such (voiture balai) was introduced
into the route and an unofficial best climber as the Pyrenees to follow behind the peloton
was named, which set the scene for later became part of to ‘sweep up’ injured or
accolades such as ‘King of the Mountains’. the course exhausted riders 1915 – 1919: World War I
– no Tour de France
Between the Wars
1924: Henri Pelissier 1927: the number of stages was
1919: The yellow 1925: the number
revealed to the Press increased to 24. Sixteen of the
jersey was of stages was
that drugs were taken by flat stages were run as team
introduced to increased from 15
many riders to get them time trials, with teams setting off
identify the race to 18 to reduce the
round the course at 15 minute intervals
leader. length of each stage
1930: riders rode for national teams rather than trade teams 1933: the first mountains
classification by a points
system, was won by Vicente
1935: Spanish rider Francisco Copeda was the first Trueba (Spain), - the first
fatality. He crashed on a mountain descent, fractured King of the Mountains
his skull and died 3 days later
Post War Years
1939 – 1945: World War II
– no Tour de France 1947: 100 riders in national and regional teams took
part. There was no German team and the Italian team
1948: The finish was made up of French-Italians living in France
of the race at the
Paris Velodrome 1952: Mountain top 1953: The points system was introduced for 1955: Louison Bobet (France) was
was filmed for TV finishes and an award to sprints and time trials. The rider with the highest the first man to win the race three
for the first time the most combative rider number of points – ie the best sprinter - was years in
each day were introduced acknowledged by the award of a green jersey. succession
1962: The race reverted back to trade 1972: Belgian Eddy 1974: Tour de France came to UK for
teams rather than national and regional Merckx known as ‘The the first time. The cyclists crossed the
teams. Tom Simpson was the first Cannibal’, won his fourth Channel by boat, for the
British rider to wear the yellow jersey consecutive Tour first stage in SW England
1975: The polka dot jersey was introduced for the best mountain
1978: Bernard Hainault climber and the white jersey for the best young rider
(France) won the race on
his first Tour, covering the
3,908km at an average speed 2009: Bradley Wiggins was awarded
of 36.084 km/hour. He would 3rd place after Lance Armstrong was
go on to win 5 times in total stripped of his titles in 2012. Mark
Cavendish won 6 stages including the
The 21st Century final at the Champs Élysées.
1981: Phil Anderson was the first
Australian to win the yellow jersey – the modern
Tour de France 2012: Bradley Wiggins was the
1986: Greg LeMond was the first American to win the Race first British rider to win the Tour de
2003: The centenary route France, with Chris Froome in second
1995: Miguel Indurain (Spain) became 1998: Known as the ‘Tour took place entirely in France, place. Mark Cavendish won 3 stages
the first rider to win the Tour five times du Dopage’. The Festina passing through the six including the final stage
in succession. Olympic champion team pulled out after a towns on the original route
Fabio Casartelli was tragically killed drugs scandal 2013: A second British victory as Chris
2006: The route travelled Froome took the yellow jersey. He and
1999: Lance Armstrong won the Race on his return to racing after through five other countries – the six remaining riders of Team Sky
his battle with cancer. He was to win 6 more times, but stripped of Luxembourg, the Netherlands, crossed the finish line at the Champs
his titles in 2012 following a doping scandal Belgium, Spain, and Germany Élysées together.
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Giants of Yorkshire
Cycling
first Briton to win
the Criterium de
Yorkshire is the ideal county for serious Dauphine in 1961
cycling with its roller coaster roads, – the next Briton
glorious scenery up hill and down dale to win it was
and lightening transition from country to Bradley Wiggins
town. This kind of roadscape makes for in 2011! Brian
challenging cycling, and over the years retired in 1962, but without doubt set the
Yorkshire has produced a rich heritage wheels in motion for Yorkshire cycling. At
of men and women who have enjoyed the age of 82 he still cycles today!
international success in the cycling world.
Barry Hoban
“ Yorkshire really packs Barry’s racing career began in the 1950s
a punch when it comes with his local team, Calder Clarion CC. He
then progressed into continental racing
to cycling, with a rich and between 1967 and 1975 won eight
heritage of men and stages of the Tour de France – a record
women who have only beaten so far by Mark Cavendish. In
1968 he became the first British rider to
graced the international win a Tour de France mountain stage, but
cycling scene” his greatest success was beating Eddy
Merckx and Roger De Vlaeminck in a
Welcome to Yorkshire sprint finish in the 1974 Ghent-Wevelgem.
Often called the sprinters classic, this
Brian Robinson Flanders Classic Road Race takes place
Born in Mirfield, Brian joined Huddersfield in Belgium in late March.
Road Club at 13. He did much of his early
racing during his National Service. He Beryl Burton
was the first British rider to finish the Tour A Leeds lass, Beryl has proved herself
de France in 1955 and the first to win a to be a true cycling heroine dominating
stage in 1958 completing seven Tours women’s cycle racing during the 1960’s
between 1955 and 1961. Brian was the and ‘70s. She raced mainly for Morley
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Cycling Club and later Knaresborough Ed Clancy MBE
CC. During her illustrious career Beryl Ed is from Huddersfield and as a world
won 96 domestic championships and Olympic and European Champion is
seven world titles, 13 pursuit titles, 71 making his mark on the track. In London
time trial titles and set the women’s 2012 he won gold in the team pursuit
record for the 12 hour time-trial which for and bronze in the individual Omnium.
two years (1967-69) exceeded the men’s In September 2012 British Cycling
record! Beryl was also invited to compete announced that Ed would join the team
in the Grand Prix Nations in 1967 – a rare sprint for a number of competitions.
distinction for a woman.
Lizzie
Malcolm Elliott Armitstead
Born in Sheffield, Born in Otley,
Malcolm’s first Lizzie, at 25 is a
race in 1977 professional road
was the start and track racing
of a successful cyclist. She won
domestic and the British National
international Road Race
career. Among Championships
many accolades in 2011 and rose to prominence in the
he has won two London 2012 Olympics when she won
stage victories in the Vuelta Espagna, Team GB’s first medal of the games – a
two gold medals in 1982 Commonwealth silver medal!
Games won the Milk Race in 1987, was
National Champion in 1993 and is also an
Olympian. He has participated twice in David Stone MBE
the Tour de France, in 1987 and 1988. Paralympic cyclist. Although born in
Birmingham David now lives in Leeds.
He started cycling aged 8 and competed
Ben Swift in his first race at 15 when he was
Ben hails from spotted by the manager of the manager
Rotherham and at of the Great Britain Team. Suffering from
the age of 25 is a cerebral palsy, David has described
member of Team cycling as an outlet of frustration and
Sky and Team GB. a source of freedom and enjoyment.
His successes to After a break of 3 years he resumed his
date include Tour cycling career and won several World
de Picardie in 2010, Championships, two gold medals in the
one stage of the Paralympics in Beijing and a bronze and
Tour de California, two stages gold medal in London 2012.
of the Tour Down Under and one stage of
the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon. Ben is also a
world champion on the track.
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Karen Darke Hot-spot
Born in Halifax, Karen is a British
Paralympic cyclist, paratriathlete , sprint activity
adventurer, author and public speaker
Inspired by the Cycling Giants who
Paralysed from the chest down following
pioneered this increasingly popular
an accident at 21, Karen has not let this
sport, a new generation of Yorkshire
defeat her and among other feats won a
cyclists are starting to emerge and
bronze medal in the Para-Cycling World
make their mark on the world stage.
cup in 2009, followed by two silver medals
in the Women’s H2 road race and time • Inspire and motivate your students
trial events at the 2011 Para-Cycling world by challenging them to find our
cup in Spain. Karen competed in the new, up and coming heroes of
2012 London Paralympics winning a silver Yorkshire Cycling!
medal in the Women’s road time trial H1-2. Here are a few names to
start them off:
Scott Thwaites
Adam Blythe
Dean and Russ Downing
Josh Edmondson
• Find some local heroes very close
to home in local cycling clubs –
TDF Pedal invite them to come in to talk to
your groups
Pushing Fact: • Discuss the skills and qualities
first
Q: Who was the of a cycling hero. Work in small
win a
British Rider to groups to create a life-size picture
r de
stage of the Tou of your cycling hero in whatever
France? medium you choose – words,
pictures, drama or music. You
could choose a real person or
make up your own. Add the skills
and qualities to the picture
• Imagine yourself as a cycling
hero. Write a ‘Day in the Life’ diary
page. As well as your activities
describe your feelings and
emotions
Curriculum links:
Literacy, ICT, PSHE, Art, Design,
Music, Drama, French
A: Brian Robinson, who won stage 7, in 1958
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Women in
Cycling
(Italian World Champion) and Rochelle
Gilmore (Australian world Champion).
The success of the women in the
Great Britain cycling team in the 2012
Olympics without doubt raised the Female Cycling Heroes
profile of cycling for women in the UK. There are increasingly more opportunities
However, both in the professional world for women to get into cycling, inspired
and as a leisure and fitness pursuit, by a strong cohort of inspirational cycling
the percentage of women involved is role models. There will be local female
still lower than that of men. Although Cycling Heroes in your area to draw from
women’s cycling in Britain is growing, to inspire your students, but here are
the pace of change is slow and at some well known women cyclists as a
amateur level race organisers often starter for ten. Some have started cycling
struggle to attract female competitors from a young age, while others have
with sometimes only one woman to five taken up the sport later in life so there
men competing. There is a drive to get are a range of examples to motivate and
more women cycling – programmes such encourage your students.
as Breeze, set up by British Cycling to
encourage and support thousands of
women to feel confident and comfortable
about riding bikes.
Find out more by visiting
breezebikerides.com
Bradley Wiggins is helping to fund a
British based team, the Wiggle Honda
Pro-Cycling team was established
following 2012 to boost women’s
cycling. This includes some of UK’s best
young riders – such as Laura Trott, Dani
King, Joanna Rowsell, Elinor Barker, Amy
Roberts together with Giorgia Bronzini
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Victoria coaches to be on their training team
Pendleton, in 2005. She became a track cyclist
and won the world team pursuit title in
MBE,CBE 2011 alongside Laura Trott and Wendy
(b 24 September
Houvenaghal, in 2012 with Laura Trott
1980, Stotfold,
and Joanna Rowsell and in 2013 with
Bedfordshire) -
Laura Trott and Elinor Barker. A track and
a former track
road cyclist for Wiggle – Honda, Dani
cyclist and double
also won a gold medal in the summer
Olympic champion,
Olympics 2012 with Laura Trott and
who specialised in sprint,
Joanna Rowsell, setting a new world
team sprint and *keirin disciplines. She
record time of 3:14:051.
rode her first race - 400m, on the grass
To find out more visit
track at Fordham at the age of nine.
www.daniking.
During her career, representing GB and
co.uk
England, Victoria has won nine world
titles, including six in the individual sprint
competition between 2005 and 2012. Joanna Rowsell,
When she won her first major medal MBE
at the 2005 UCI Track Cycling World (b.5 December
Championships she became the third 1988, Carshalton,
British woman to become a cycling London Borough
world champion in 40 years. In the 2012 of Sutton) – a track
summer Olympics she won a gold medal and road cyclist
in the keirin and a silver medal in the with Wiggle- Honda, Joanna
sprint. Victoria retired from cycling in was spotted by British Cycling’s Talent
2012. Team programme at school in 2004.
To find out more visit www. Joanna won junior British National Track
victoriapendleton.co.uk championships pursuit in 2005 and 2006.
She went on to win gold medals in the
*Keirin is motor–paced cycle racing in women’s team pursuit at the 2008, 2009
which track cyclists sprint for victory and 2012 World Championships and
following a speed controlled start behind a gold medal tor the team pursuit with
a motorised or non-motorised pacer Dani King and Laura Trott in the summer
Olympics 2012.
Dani King, MBE To find out more visit
( b.21 November www.joannarowsell.com
1990,
Southampton) Laura Trott, OBE
While still at (b.24 April 1992, Harlow, Essex).Suffering
school, Dani was from asthma as a small child, doctors
chosen by the recommended that Laura should take
British Cycling’s up a sport to regulate her breathing
talent team
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and later took up Marianne Vos
cycling. Now riding (b. 13 May 1987, Hertogenbosch,
for Wiggle–Honda, Netherlands) - a Dutch road and track
Laura is a track racer, who started cycling when she
and road cyclist was six and participated in races when
specialising in she was eight. Marianne won a junior
team pursuit European world championship in road
and *omnium racing progressing to world champion in
disciplines. At the cyclo-cross and road racing at 19. She
summer Olympics won a gold medal in the 2008 summer
2012 she won gold in both events – Olympics and gold in the women’s road
(the team pursuit with Dani King and race in the 2012 summer Olympics,
Joanna Rowsell) making her a double In 2006 and 2012 she has won the
Olympic champion in her first Olympics! accolade of World Road Race champion.
to find out more visit
www.lauratrott.com Beryl Burton
(see Yorkshire Giants)
*Omnium is a multiple race event in track
cycling
Lizzie Armitstead
(see Yorkshire Giants)
Wendy Houvenaghel
(b 27 November 1974, Upperlands,
Nicole Cooke, MBE
County Londonderry, Northern Ireland).
(b.13 April 1983, Swansea, South Wales)
While in the RAF, Wendy started cycling
– a former professional road bicycle
in 2002, On completing her commission
racer and Commonwealth, Olympic and
in 2004, her cycling career started
World road race champion, Nicole retired
to take off – riding on both road and
at 29 on 14 January 2013.
track, but specialising in track. She has
Nicole began cycling at 11 with Cardiff
represented Britain in various World
Ajax Cycling club. At 16 she won her
Cycling Championships, winning silver at
first senior national title, becoming
the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and
the youngest rider to take the senior
gold at the team pursuit at 2008, 2009
woman’s title at the 1999 British National
and 2011 Track World Championships.
Road Race Championships. At 17 she
Wendy has guided new riders in the
became the youngest rider to win the
Team pursuit and finished the 2010/11
senior women’s title at the 2001 British
track season as World Number One in
National Cyclocross Championships.
the UCI World Rankings and in 2012 won
She turned professional in 2002, riding
gold in the UCI Track World cup Team
for the Spanish-Ukrainian Deia-Pragma-
Pursuit in London.
Colnago, based in Forli, Italy. During
To find out more visit
Nicole’s career her major wins include
www.wendyhouvenaghel.com
the Commonwealth Games Road Race,
2002; Amstel Gold Race 2003, Giro
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d’Italia Femminile, 2004; La Fleche
Wallonne Feminine, 2003, 2005, 2006; Hot-spot
Grande Boucle Tour de France Feminine, Sprint Activity:
2006, 2007; Ronde van Vlaandaren
voor Vrouwen 2007; UCI Road World • Challenge your students to
Championship Road Race, 2008 and research local cycling clubs and
Olympic Games Road Race, 2008. in the role of sports journalists
arrange to interview female cyclists
for an article with photographs. If
the cyclists agree they could film
the interview
• The journalist teams write up the
articles for a sports newspaper
and present to the rest of the class
TDF Pedal and/or school
Pushing Fact: r inne
• Journalist teams invite inspiring
Q: Which TDF w female cyclists to come into school
os been
has Marianne V to talk to the class/school
ying that
compared to, sa
t cyclist of
she is ‘the fines
her generation’? Curriculum links:
Literacy, ICT
sixties and seventies won 5 consecutive Tours
A: Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx who competing in the late
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Safe Cycling
National Standards Cycling Training
administered by the Department for
Cycling is a wonderful means of Transport. This is a cycling proficiency
transport for people of all ages; it creates programme for the 21st century that is
independence, it gets people outside designed to give the next generation
and into the fresh air and it is a very of cyclists the skills and confidence to
‘green’ form of transport as it does not safely ride their bikes on today’s roads.
pollute the atmosphere, and it is a great Bikeability was developed by more
form of exercise. There is nothing quite than twenty professional organisations
like the sense of achievement when the including the Royal Society for
stabilisers are taken away and you are Prevention against Accidents and
launched into the world on two wheels! is supported by cross-Government
However it is imperative that anyone who departments including the Department
wants to cycle – whatever their age – can for Transport, Department of Health and
feel confident and be equipped with the Department for Children, Schools and
skills to cycle safely. This is where Cycle Families.
Training plays a crucial part and will
equip you with the skills and knowledge There are three Bikeability levels
you need: Level 1: Red Badge: age 10+
• to be a safe cyclist who is visible to Learn to control and master the bike.
and aware of the traffic around you. Training takes place in an environment
• to know where to ride to be safe – eg away from cars and traffic such as a
riding in the marked cycle lanes on playground or closed car park.
pavements. Get to know your wheels with top tips
• to ensure that your bike is road worthy to keep
and undertake basic maintenance your bike
in shape.
The best way to achieve this is through
joining a cycle club or signing up to a
proficiency programme.
The main programme for schools and
community groups is Bikeability – a
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Level 2: TDF Pedal
Orange Badge: age 10-11 Pushing Fact
The training takes children out on the
roads to gain real cycling experience to Q: What British
bicycle
manufacturer s
enable them to deal with traffic on short ponsored
the winning ride
journeys such as cycling to school. Get r in the
1980 Tour de Fra
geared up with tips on how to choose nce?
your bike and kit. Who was the
winner?
Level 3: Green Badge: age 11-18
The young people learn the skills to
tackle a wider range of traffic conditions Hot-spot
so that on achieving Level 3 they will Sprint Activity
be able to deal with all types of road
conditions and more challenging traffic KS2:
situations. Try the Sustrans ‘Suss it out’
activities, ‘Staying Safe’
There is also Bikeability training for • Hi -vis treasure hunt
adults so you can involve parents, • Hazard map
helpers and school staff. • The great safety debate
‘Suss it Out’ is a series of free
Since the start of the programme downloadable, fun and engaging
hundreds of thousands of Bikeability activities
badges have been awarded. The aim for www.sustrans.org.uk
2012 was for half a million young cyclists
to be Bikeability trained and the ultimate KS3:
vision is that no child should leave Try out the Sustrans Big Street
primary school without the opportunity Survey which enables students to
to take part in Bikeability training. investigate the area around school
and create a manifesto on how to
Schools can sign up to Bikeability, make the streets safer and greener.
which as well as delivering the training www.sustrans.org.uk
provides a wealth of games, interactive
discussions, creative ideas and lesson or: Plan your route to school
plans to inspire your young people to get • Plan a safe route to school from
on their bikes. There is also a guide to home either on your bike or no foot
promote cycling in your school. • Present you plan to younger people
who live near you.
Visit the website
www.dft.gov.uk/bikeability‘activities Curriculum Links:
www.sustrans.org.uk Science, Literacy, PSHE
A: Raleigh; Joop Zoetemelk (Netherlands)
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Cycling for Healthy Living
improved health and fitness, reduced
congestion and pollution (which is
also good for our health) and hopefully
Cycling is acknowledged as one of the even more Olympic champions and
best forms of exercise to get fit and stay Tour de France winner
healthy and the beauty of it is that once • Cycling at least twenty miles a week
you can ride a bike you can cycle as reduces the risk of heart disease
often as you please. You can enjoy being • Young people who cycle are more
outside in the town or countryside and confident, more independent and
it’s free. Cycling can open up a whole perform better at school
new world. There are many cycling
clubs, groups and events to join in with To encourage Cycling for Healthy Living
if you need an incentive or if you want why not organise a Bike to School Week.
to cycle with an organised group. It is You could link in with the Sustrans
also a great way for people of all ages to programme which usually takes place in
socialise. June (see below) or link with National Bike
Week www.bikeweek.org.org.uk
To find your local cycling club follow
this link:
www.britishcycling.org.uk/clubfunder
or use the local resources at the back of
this pack – Wheels Within Wheels.
Encouraging children and young
people to cycle will produce many
positive benefits for the short and long-
term future, so the Countdown to the
Yorkshire Grand Départ is a fantastic
opportunity to inspire them and equip
them with the skills and confidence to
get pedalling.
The Bikeability programme observes that
• More young people cycling will lead to
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A great example of an organised
programme that focuses on cycling and Hot-spot
healthy living is the Sustrans UK-wide Sprint Activity
‘Bike to School Week’ that takes place
each June. This is a fantastic way to get Try the Sustrans ‘Suss it out’
your whole school or club involved in a activities ‘Being Healthy’
ready-made programme jam-packed full • Finger on the Pulse
of tips, events, activities and lessons to • Get Creative
inspire young people and families to make • The great Activity-off
more journeys by bike. The programme
is designed to take place over six weeks ‘Suss it Out’ is a series of free
with a step-by-step guide to help you get downloadable, fun and engaging
there. However, you don’t need to wait activities
until June 2014 – you can organise your www.sustrans.org.uk
‘Bike to School’ week whenever it fits your
calendar or curriculum. KS3:
Organise and promote a ‘Bike Fest’
Visit the Sustrans website for your school or youth club
www.sustrans.org.uk/ • Plan a variety of health focused
biketoschoolweek activities.
Curriculum Links:
Science, Literacy, Art, ICT , PE
TDF Pedal
Pushing Fact
to be
Q: Cyclists need
le the High
super fit to tack
win stages
Mountains and
ho has
consistently. W
ing of the
been crowned ‘K
en
Mountains’ sev
times?
A: France’s Richard Verinque, between 1994 and 2004.
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Cycling for All
A lasting legacy of Le Grand Départ
in Yorkshire will be Cycle Yorkshire
through the shared regional strategies
for Yorkshire and the Humber which
has been developed by Yorkshire and
Humber Local Authorities and Partners.
This has and will put a range of bold
objectives and deliverables in place • Everyone in the region to have access
to make cycling more accessible and to training to give them the skills
enjoyable to everyone and realise the and confidence to be able to cycle
vision for Yorkshire and the Humber: regularly
‘to be recognised as a great region for • Safe, high quality infrastructure and
safe cycling, inspiring more people to facilities to enable cycling, appropriate
cycle more often’. to local circumstances and need,
to be provided throughout each
local authority area, linking main
What are the objectives?
residential and ingress points to main
• Cycling to be widely perceived as a
destinations
safe, effective, cheap, healthy and
• Local authorities and partners to
enjoyable activity for commuting and
effectively encourage and facilitate
leisure
everyone in the region to cycle more
• Yorkshire and the Humber to be
often as a mode of transport for
recognised as a great region for cycle
recreation and for sport.
sport, cycle tourism and events
• A broad range of partners to be
effectively working together to The overall aim is that more
promote cycling people will cycle
• Everyone in the region to have access • As a means of transport
to appropriate equipment to enable • For leisure
them to cycle • For sport
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How will this happen?
Through highlights such as:
• Bringing cycle hire together across the
region to form a network
• periodic Tour de Yorkshire events
• support for every large employer and
school in the region to have a fully
implemented travel plan
There are many opportunities in this
region for people to improve their skills
and confidence and enjoy cycling,
including:
• cycle training in schools – Bike It and
Bikeability training (see ‘Safe Cycling’)
• A cycle sports participation events
• Adult cycle training (Urban Cycle skills)
• Initiatives to get more people cycling Campaigns and events take place in all
to work regions throughout the year. Examples
• Women-specific events and support include
(Breeze network, spin classes and • Cycle to work and school challenges
clubs providing women-only rides) – Bike to work and Bike to School
• Cycle maintenance courses weeks
• Supporting cycling clubs and the • Guided cycle rides eg Sky Ride
development of new clubs events, community events and
festivals such as the York Festival of
Cycling
• Amateur Racing events including
Criterium Cycle races, time trials, hill
climbs and Sportives.
Look out for what is happening in your
local area. You may be surprised at how
many bike activities are going on! (see
Wheels within Wheels at the back of this
pack for local events)
Here are some of the organisations you
can access for information on events,
clubs and initiatives
• www.york.gov.uk/getyorkcycling
• British Cycling –
www.britishcycling.org.uk
• Cycling clubs – find your local club
through British cycling
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• Sustrans – www.sustrans.org.uk
• Sport England (English Sports Council) Hot-spot
– www.sportengland.org Sprint Activity:
• CTC – The National Cycling Charity
– www.ctc.org.uk Tour de France board game
• Tourism bodies :
• Welcome to Yorkshire – • Challenge your students to devise
www.yorkshire.com see link to a Board Game and develop a
Yorkshire Grand Depart sales pitch to sell their game to
• Visit York – www.visityork.org the Tour de France organisers
• Bike shops • For an additional challenge the
• Gyms board game is to be devised in
French and English, and the sales
It has never been easier to get on your pitch is to be presented in French
bike, get pedalling and enjoy your and English
cycling against the backdrop of our
glorious Yorkshire landscape. Towns Curriculum links:
and cities. Literacy, Maths, Art, Design,
Enterprise, French
‘Realising the legacy of Le Grand Départ
– a strategy for cycling in Yorkshire
and the Humber’ – in partnership with
Yorkshire and Humber local Authorities
and Partners. Read the Strategy in detail TDF Pedal
by going to http://cycle.yorkshire.com Pushing Fact
Q: What is the
closest margin
of
victory for a Tou
r de
France winner?
deficit to beat Frenchman Laurent Fignon
A: Eight seconds! In 1989 Greg Lemond overcame a 50 second
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Scandal and
Ethics
advantage as his fellow competitors.
Even the very first Tour de France did not
Throughout its hundred year history take place without incident as members
the Tour de France has seen some of the crowd did more than just shout
scandalous incidents of cheating, their support and encouragement to
sabotage and doping. assist their favourites but physically tried
to hold back and even assaulted other
In the history of sport, such are the riders.
pressures put on athletes to perform
well that they will always strive to The second race in 1904 was rife with
achieve above and beyond expectation. incidents of cheating by riders and
Some athletes, unfortunately, use unfair sabotage by supporters. Desperate to
means to achieve the advantage. From win, many riders took shortcuts, hung
the very beginning, the Tour de France on to the backs of cars or rode some of
organisers imposed strict rules and the route by train! The fact that some
regulations so that each cyclist had a stages were so long that they took place
sporting chance of success. The rules at night provided the incentive to cheat
have been adapted through the years under cover of darkness. The supporters
to support the changing dynamics of were even more vicious than the
the race. ASO has continued to uphold previous year, sabotaging bike frames
stringent but fair regulations so that the and strewing the roads with tacks and
glory of the sport can be maintained and nails. Worse than this - on Stage 2 at the
all who participate have exactly the same top of the Col de la Républic at 3am the
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riders were greeted by a group of about
100 people armed with clubs and stones
who proceeded to attack them in order
to assist their local man. One of the
organisers, following in a car, fired pistol
shots and the crowd dispersed.
Maurice Garin commented
“If I’m not murdered
before Paris I’ll win the
Tour again”!
Garin did win, but was later among the
eleven riders who were disqualified for
cheating. Henri Desgrange despaired
that these scandals may cause the
second Tour de France to be the last.
However, the race continued into the
The most long-standing scandal plaging
third year, with a significant and effective
this sport is that of doping. This reared
change as the organisers introduced
its ugly head as early as the 1920’s
more, but shorter stages. This did not
when French brothers Francis and Henri
eliminate the nails strewing practice
Pélissier (the 1923 winner) revealed to
for the next few Tours, and scandals
journalists how they got through the Tour.
continued throughout later years - in
1938 there was a report of a rider
hanging onto the back of a car and in “There, look, this is
1955 riders were fined for being given a what we use to get
helping hand by spectators.
through the Tour.
More cases of unruly fans continued Cocaine to go in our
when in 1950, drunk spectators blocked
the road in the Pyrenees and threatened eyes, chloroform to rub
the Italian favourite, Gino Bartali, forcing on our our gums…,
the Italian team to withdraw. The French
government were obliged to apologise
we run on dynamite”
to the Italian government. Even more
incredible , in 1975,was the case of the It was common practice for the riders
so-called fan who punched five-times to drink alcohol during the race until the
Tour winner Eddy Merckx in the kidneys . 1960s when a law was passed forbidding
Merckx won the stage, but thanks to the the use of stimulants in sport. Doping
attack, did not win a sixth Tour. tests were introduced in the mid-1960’s.
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in the history of the race erupted and
resulted in the whole Festina team being
disqualified. The Festina affair started
when their Soigneur (carer/physical
therapist) was stopped by the police on
the French/Belgium border and found
to be in possession of a massive haul
of performance enhancing drugs. The
fallout revealed that most of the team
had been systematically doped, as part
of a programme so the whole team was
disqualified. Bruno Roussell, Festina’s
Director Sportif’s explanation was that
providing the team with the products
would control what substances they
were taking and ensure their good
However, this did not stop the practice health!
– a fatal combination of brandy,
amphetamines together with the heat Despite the fact that this scandal nearly
and the climb led to Tom Simpson’s killed the Tour de France, doping still
death during the 1967 Tour. continued. The most recent high profile
doping scandal involved the American,
As with many sports doping continued to Lance Armstrong, who after combatting
tarnish the sporting ethics of the Tour de testicular cancer in 2009, won seven
France, compounded by the measures Tours in a row – a feat that had never
some riders took to undermine the tests. been achieved before.
In 1978 Belgian Michael Pollentier was
disqualified after an elaborate system of However, doping accusations started
tubes under his armpit containing clean to emerge and in 2012 after intense
urine was discovered. investigations he was stripped of all his
titles.
In 1988 the Tour winner, Pedro Delgado
tested positive for a substance banned Since then, now that the dirty washing
by the International Olympic Committee, of the Tour de France has finally been
but it was not on the UCI‘s (Union hung out for the world to see and
Cycliste Internationale) banned list so through greater scrutiny and thorough
he was not penalised. Tests taken the drug-testing, there have been no new
day before and after were clear, so the scandals to wobble the peloton!
positive test is a mystery, but it still cast
a shadow over the event. Measures have been put in place and
organisers will strive to ensure that
The 1998 Tour, became known Tour the Tour de France stays clean. Chris
du Dopage when the biggest scandal Froome’s speech on the podium after
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winning the 2013 event endorsed the for choosing and supporting a leading
necessity to uphold and promote rider. Each team member has a vital role
the Clean ethics of the Race with his to play such as that of ‘domestique’ to
evocative words: ensure that the leading is in a position
to win various stages and ultimately the
Tour itself. It is a complicated system,
“This is one yellow but a joy to watch as the team pushes
jersey that will stand a path forward through the Peloton, and
the test of time” the leader sprints to victory.
Geraint Thomas of Team Sky
commented that Bradley Wiggins...
Ethics
It is human nature to focus on the
infamous and notorious aspects of “will be the first to
life. The Tour de France scandals can,
however, be balanced by many instances recognise that he would
of chivalrous and ‘Gentlemanly’ conduct. not have been able to
Le Gentleman
achieve his victory
During the 2012 Tour de France, the old without a terrific team
practice of ‘fans’ throwing tacks on the behind him”
road raised its ugly head, with the result
that Australia’s Cadel Evans suffered Another great example of team spirit was
several punctures at Stage 14. Race the wonderful spectacle of Chris Froome
Leader, Bradley Wiggins slowed the crossing the finishing line the 2013 Tour
pace of the Peloton so that Evans could de France with the remaining members
catch up, and was widely praised for his of his team.
sportsmanship.
The French Picture © Graham Watson
public gave him
the accolade
‘Le Gentleman’.
Team Spirit
The modern
day Tour
de France
operates very
much on
team spirit,
and each
team has
a planned
strategy
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Hot-spot
Sprint Activity
TDF Pedal
• Ethics/Scandal Drama: working Pushing Fact
in groups the students research Q: Who are the
oldest
an example of good Ethics or and youngest w
inners
bad Scandal. They create a mini- of the Tour de F
rance
drama of their chosen example to date?
and present to the whole class
• Choose an incident on Ethics v
Scandal and organise a debate.
The PSHE Curriculum activity
could provide a starter for ten
Curriculum Links:
Literacy, PSHE, Drama
net was declared the winner four months after the Race!
including the ‘winner’, Maurice Garin, were disqualified for cheating. Henri Cor-
(France) in 1904 , aged 19. This was the controversial year in which twelve riders
A: Oldest: Firmin Lambert (Belgium) in 1922, aged 36. Youngest: Henri Cornet
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Celebration, Music
and Culture
– both traditional and using modern
The Tour de France, as well as being the technology! No doubt there will be many
most exciting and popular cycle race in more amazing events to look forward to
the world, provides the catalyst for three in the 100 day Cultural Festival that will
weeks of celebration, music and culture form part of the Yorkshire Grand Départ.
along the route. This is a great opportunity for you
and your students to contribute to the
The Tour de France caravan publicity, Yorkshire Celebrations!
composed of up to 180 vehicles, Here are some of the quirky events and
accompanies the cyclists. It is an hour evocative ideas from previous Tours.
long mobile road show with dancers,
music and advertisers handing out • Images of jerseys and bike sculptures
promotional items! Millions of spectators on the city walls at Corsica Park
line the route – many of them dressed
in colourful and quirky costumes. The
race is televised in around 188 countries
which provides a fantastic opportunity
for 3.5 million people to witness the
continuous festival that welcomes the
Tour de France spectacle as it hurtles
through over 250 towns and villages and
countryside along le parcours. The towns
and villages pull out the stops to create
their own local cultural festivals and
welcome the world into their domain.
A vast myriad of souvenirs is available
– books, posters, stamps, coins and
clothes and many such items will no • The French farmers aerial bike at Stage
doubt form special collections! 3, 2011 Tour de France – a wonderful
aerial image of moving art. This can be
There have been and are many unusual found by going onto Google -
and creative ideas to celebrate the Tour www.youtube.com
Celebration, Music & Culture A29You can also read
