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95th Tour de France
Saturday July 5th to Sunday July 27th 2008

The 95th Tour de France will start on July 5th in Brittany with last year's champion, Spaniard Alberto Contador, heading the betting.

Not only is The Tour de France the most recognisable name in world cycling it is one of the world's leading sporting events.

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The maillot jaune (yellow jersey), which is worn by the general classification (or overall time) leader, is the most prized. It is awarded by calculating the total combined race time up to that point for each rider. The rider with the lowest total time is the leader, and at the end of the event is declared the overall winner of the Tour.

As of 2005, the first 3 places to finish are awarded bonuses of 20, 12, and 8 seconds respectively, while the first 3 places at intermediate sprints are awarded 6, 4, and 2 seconds. However, these bonuses are rarely significant enough to cause major upset in the classement géneral (General Classification).

Sometimes a rider takes the overall lead during a stage and gets sufficiently far ahead of the yellow jersey wearer his current lead is greater than his time deficit to the yellow jersey in the general classification, when this happens, this rider may be referred to as being "the yellow jersey on the road". Obviously, no jerseys can be exchanged in this situation, which is why in some other languages the leading rider is referred to as the "virtual yellow".

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Betting on the 2008 Tour de France with (Gamblers Palace) is a terrific way to increase your enjoyment of the most famous event on the international cycling calendar. Hard though it is to believe, 'Le Tour' as its fans like to call it, started out as a marketing exercise for a French newspaper. Maurice Garin won the inaugural Tour de France in 1903 but fell from grace a year later when Le Tour organisers disqualified him for taking a train through part of the route.

The first competitors would not recognise the race today. No longer are competitors expected to ride through the night but the route is much longer in distance and much tougher in terrain.

The 2008 Tour de France will comprise 21 stages, including three time-trial stages that are crucial in determining the eventual wearer of the Maillot Jaune.

These 21 stages have the following profiles:

* 10 flat stages,
* 5 mountain stages,
* 4 medium mountain stages,
* 2 individual time-trial stages.

Statistics for past Tours are:

Raymond Poulidor may not have won the Yellow Jersey, but he is the rider who stepped the highest number of times on the podium of the Tour (he finished 8 times in the Top 3!), more than Hinault, Zoetemelk, Ullrich and Armstrong (7), Garrigou, Anquetil and Merckx (6), LeMond and Indurain (5), Van Impe and L. Bobet (4).

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Tour de France 2007 Results

PARIS -- Alberto Contador crossed the Tour de France finish line in the overall leader's yellow jersey as expected yesterday. The historic Hotel Crillon on the Place de la Concorde flew the Spanish flag from the roof in his honor just as it used to raise the flag of Texas for Lance Armstrong.  Outwardly, it was just like the old days, especially since the 24-year-old Contador and the now-retired Armstrong represented the same dynastic team -- Discovery Channel, formerly known as US Postal Service, which has captured cycling's crown jewel eight of the last nine years.  Yet, in the last year, the Tour has been shaken to its foundations. The 2007 race came to an end with the 2006 winner's slot still vacant, held hostage to the drawn-out legal dispute over Floyd Landis's positive test for synthetic testosterone.  Contador's win came courtesy of an unprecedented shake-up five days before the end of the three-week race when Danish rider Michael Rasmussen was fired by his Rabobank team for evasive behavior toward anti-doping authorities. Two men and their teams were thrown out of the race after positive tests. Yesterday, Rasmussen said he never has used performance-enhancing drugs and would not rule out competing in next year's Tour de France.  "I have never used doping," the 33-year-old told Danish broadcaster TV2. "But it is as if the yellow jersey is easiest to shoot at."  The fact that more dirty riders are being caught, while damaging in a public relations sense, is cited by many as proof that a system long riddled with loopholes is casting a more narrow-gauge net. But cycling is also hampered by a culture of infighting that is as entrenched as its culture of doping.

Tour de France 2006 Results

Floyd Landis paced himself perfectly in the final major rendezvous of the 2006 Tour de France. He didn’t waiver from his plan at the start of the day and wasn’t tempted to try and catch the dominant Serhiy Honchar who won his second successive Tour de France time trial. Floyd knew that the most important thing was to finish over half a minute ahead of Oscar Pereiro; he did just that and now he’ll be the fourth American winner.

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