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Paris-Tours
     
Paris-Tours, a prestige race created in 1896, is the private preserve of real sprinters and finishers. Over a relatively flat course, teams of sprinters manoeuvre to allow their last man to exert his fleetness and put his back into the final sprint along the superb Avenue de Grammont in Tours. Just a few climbs towards the end of the course can disrupt the well-constructed plans drawn up at the start in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines and anticipate the preparations for the final fling. Disputed one week before the World Championships, Paris-Tours keeps all its attraction for the “greyhounds” of the road, without forgetting those who come to put the finishing touches to their preparation for the Rainbow Jersey.
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the race
Paris-Tours

ONE-DAY RACE
• Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines - Tours
• Event of over 250 kms
• 25 teams of 8 riders

PRIZEMONEY
• Over 50,000 euros
ROLL OF HONOUR
The roll of honour of this mythical race features in particular
• Richard VIRENQUE
• Jacky DURAND
• Andrei TCHMIL
• Johan MUSEEUW
• Sean KELLY
• Albert BOUVET
• Philippe THYS
• Francesco MOSER
• Erik ZABEL
• Joop ZOETEMELK
• Jan RAAS
MEDIA COVERAGE
BROADCASTS IN FRANCE
• A broadcasting which has been strongly on the increase for 5 years: 3 hrs live on France 3
1.5 million viewers

INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTS
Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA, Eurosport
Total audience
5 million viewers

Source: broadcasters

 
More:
http://www.letour.fr/stf/paristours/2005/us/
 

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