This Wednesday, the first French stage race of the 2015 season, the Etoile de Bessèges, will start in Bellegarde and it will finish in Alès on Sunday.
3 of the 5 stages of this 45th edition of the Etoile de Bessèges are identical to the Etoile's race route in 2013 but since last year, the race only has 5 stages, of which one is an individual time trial, on the last day. In this article you'll find the race route on Google Maps/Google Earth and even for the identical stages, the race route has been re-drawn more precisely and presented in a better way (with color codes).
The race will take place from Wednesday 4 till Sunday 8 February 2015. Often dominated by the sprinters in the different stages in line, the race's classification could be largely influenced by the uphill time trial as the final stage. 622 kilometers a ...
There was quite some news in the cycling world this week, like for example the announcement of La Course by Le Tour de France, a new women's race, the first informations about Paris-Roubaix 2014, but also the first edition of the Dubai Tour and the start of the cycling season in France for example.
In this article, we'll have a quick look at these different news items, in case you missed them or simply to allow you to comment them if you want to!
La Course by Le Tour de France: a very partial ... Le Tour Entier?
Last Saturday, ASO quite proudly announced a new women's race, La Course by Le Tour de France, of which the organisor already announces that the event is destined to become an iconic race in the women's calendar!
This article is unfortunately not available in English, you can read it in French below.
C'est ce mercredi que la première course par étapes française de la saison 2013, l'Etoile de Bessèges, partira de Bellegarde pour arriver presque 700 kilomètres plus loin à Alès.
Comme l'année dernière, cette 43ème édition de l'Etoile de Bessèges connaîtra 6 étapes en 5 jours, dont une en contre-la-montre individuel, le dernier jour, après une demie étape le matin.
La course aura lieu du mercredi 30 janvier au dimanche 3 février 2013. Souvent dominé et remporté par les sprinters, comme l'année dernière le classement de la course pourrait être largement influencé par le contre-la-montre en côte en étape finale. 695,7 kilomètres attendent les coureurs lors de ces 6 étapes.
1/ mercredi 30 janvier 2013 - Grand prix de la terre d'Argence - Bellegarde > Beaucaire - 154 km
This race is the Etoile de Bessèges 2011 which will take place in 5 stages from Wednesday 2 until Sunday 6 February in the triangle Bessèges-Arles-Orange.
In this article you'll find the Etoile de Bessèges 2011 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth.
Since you might already get used to it and since I don't want to break with my habits to publish the race route of different cycling races on Google Maps/Google Earth, www.velowire.com now goes on with the race route of ...
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