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French Tour de France Femmes winner boosts TV viewership

It’s forty years and counting since a Frenchman won the Tour de France. Until yesterday, it was 36 years since a French rider - Jeannie Longo - won the equivalent women’s race, then called the Tour de France Feminin. On Sunday 3rd August, Pauline Ferrand-Prevot broke that national losing streak...

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Colin Bradbury

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Tour de France Femmes Gets Under Way

A day before the men's Tour de France heads into Paris on Sunday 27th July, the women's race gets under way in Brittany. The Tour de France Femmes may be a shorter version, but it's still a brutal test of stamina and endurance that will see the best riders in the world go head-to-head in a race across the width of the country.

The first of the race's nine stages gets under way in...

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