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1994 Critérium Du Dauphiné Libéré
The 1994 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré was the 46th edition of the cycle race and was held from 30 May to 6 June 1994. The race started in Évian-les-Bains and finished in Chambéry. The race was won by the Swiss Laurent Dufaux of the Spanish ONCE team. Teams Eleven teams, containing a total of 95 riders, participated in the race: * * * * * Collstrop–Naessens–Concorde * * * * * * Route Stages Prologue 30 May 1994 – Évian-les-Bains, ( ITT) Stage 1 31 May 1994 – Évian-les-Bains to Saint-Priest, Stage 2 1 June 1994 – Charbonnières-les-Bains to Aubenas, Stage 3 2 June 1994 – Romans-sur-Isère to Romans-sur-Isère, ( ITT) Stage 4 3 June 1994 – Romans-sur-Isère to Échirolles, Stage 5 4 June 1994 – Échirolles to Le Collet d'Allevard, Stage 6 5 May 1994 – Allevard to Chambéry, Stage 7 6 June 1994 – Chambéry to Chambéry, General classification References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dauphine Libere, 1994 1994 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Dufaux
Laurent Dufaux (born 20 May 1969 in Montreux, Switzerland) is a former professional road cyclist from 1991 to 2004. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1991. Despite being a climber, he also won the hilly Züri-Metzgete one-day classic in 2000, outsprinting Jan Ullrich and Francesco Casagrande in a flat three-man group sprint finish. Notable results in the Grand Tours include a 4th place overall finish in both the 1996 and 1999 Tour de France and 2nd and 3rd place finishes in the 1996 and 1997 Vuelta a España, respectively. He also won the 1998 edition of his home region race, the Tour de Romandie, the 1993 and 1994 editions of the Dauphine Libere, and finished in the top 5 of the Tour de Suisse twice. Following the exclusion of his Festina team from the 1998 Tour de France due to doping, Laurent Dufaux admitted to doping (alongside his teammates) with EPO throughout the 1998 season. Together with Festina teammates Alex Zülle, Armin Meier, Didier Rous, Laurent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aubenas
Aubenas (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the southern part of the Ardèche Departments of France, department in Southern France. It is the seat of several government offices. The mountainous and rugged countryside is popular for vacation homes. The river Ardèche (river), Ardèche flows through the commune. Aubenas is one of the most populous communes in the Ardèche department with 12,479 inhabitants as of 2019, after Annonay and before Guilherand-Granges and Tournon-sur-Rhône. Aubenas is the centre of an Urban unit, urban area, composed of 22 towns and villages including Vals-les-Bains, with 41,568 inhabitants (2018). Aside from its long-year commercial activity, it has a good strategic position on the tourist field, at crossroads of a regional natural park, the zone of the Ardèche river canyon and the start of mountains. The chestnut industry is one testimony of the intense agricultural activity earlier in time. Etymology The root ''alb-'', meaning a height, is pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Virenque
Richard VirenqueRichard Virenque's name is pronounced Ree-shah Vee-rahnk. Virenque considers himself a man of the South but pronounces his name in standard French. Confusion is caused by the southern habit of pronouncing "en" as "ang" or "eng", making it Vee-rank. But Virenque says Vee-rahnk or Vee-ronk, a sound difficult to write in English. (born 19 November 1969) is a retired French professional road racing cyclist. He was one of the most popular French riders with fans, known for his boyish personality and his long, lone attacks.Virenque's fan club in 2000, two years after the Festina scandal had 5,000 members, of whom 2,000 were described as active. In 2000, Virenque received 589 letters in three weeks during the Tour de France, more than any other rider. He was a climber, best remembered for winning the King of the Mountains competition of the Tour de France a record seven times, and as one of the central figures in a widespread doping scandal in 1998, the Festina Affair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg LeMond
Gregory James LeMond (born June 26, 1961) is an American former Road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist. He won the Tour de France thrice and the UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, Road Race World Championship twice, becoming the only American male to win the former. LeMond began his professional cycling career in 1981. Two years later, LeMond became the first American male cyclist to win the Road World Championship. He won the Tour de France in 1986, becoming the first non-European professional cyclist to win the men's Tour. LeMond was accidentally shot with pellets and seriously injured while hunting in 1987. Following the shooting, he underwent two surgeries and missed the next two Tours. At the 1989 Tour de France, 1989 Tour, LeMond completed an improbable comeback to win in dramatic fashion on the race's final stage. He successfully defended his Tour title the following year, becoming one of only nine riders to win three or more Tours. LeMond retired from c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Kelly (cyclist)
John James 'Sean' Kelly (born 24 May 1956) is an Irish former professional road bicycle racer, one of the most successful road cyclists of the 1980s, and one of the finest Classic cycle races, Classics riders of all time. From becoming a professional in 1977 until his retirement in 1994, he won 193 professional races, including nine Cycling monument, Monument Classics, Paris–Nice a record seven years consecutively and the first UCI Road World Cup in 1989. Kelly won one Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tour, the 1988 Vuelta a España, and four Points classification in the Tour de France, green jerseys in the Tour de France. He achieved multiple victories in the Giro di Lombardia, Milan–San Remo, Paris–Roubaix and Liège–Bastogne–Liège, as well as three runners-up placings in the only Monument he failed to win, the Tour of Flanders (men's race), Tour of Flanders. Other victories include the Grand Prix des Nations and stage races, the Critérium International, Tour de Suisse, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cezary Zamana
Cezary Zamana (born 14 November 1967) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Ełk, Poland. Major results ;1989 : 5th Overall Tour de Pologne ;1992 : 1st Overall Cascade Cycling Classic ::1st Stage 3 : 1st Stage 5 West Virginia Mountain Classic : 4th Japan Cup Cycle Road Race : 8th Overall Tour of Britain : 9th Giro dell'Emilia ;1993 : 1st Stage 7 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 3rd Overall Tour d'Armorique : 9th Overall Tour de Pologne ::1st Stages 6 & 11 : 9th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre ;1994 : 4th Overall Tour d'Armorique : 9th A Travers le Morbihan ;1996 : 1st Stage 3 Bałtyk–Karkonosze Tour : 5th Overall Tour de Normandie ::1st Stage 3 : 8th Cholet-Pays de Loire ;1997 : 3rd Overall Tour de Normandie ::1st Stage 2 : 3rd Zellik–Galmaarden : 10th Overall Tour of Japan ;1998 : 1st Overall Commonwealth Bank Classic : 1st Andrzej Kaczyny Memorial : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd First Union Invitational : 5th Overall Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiebren Veenstra
Wiebren Veenstra (born 8 December 1966) is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist. He rode in two editions of the Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage cycle sport, bicycle race held primarily in France. It is the oldest and most prestigious of the three Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours, which include the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a .... References External links * 1966 births Living people Dutch male cyclists Cyclists from Friesland People from Achtkarspelen 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Philippe Dojwa
Jean-Philippe Dojwa (born 7 August 1967) is a French former cyclist. He finished fifteenth in the 1993 Tour de France. Major results ;1990 : 1st Overall Route de France ::1st Stage 4 : 5th Overall Tour du Limousin ;1991 : 3rd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe : 5th Overall Route du Sud ;1992 : 1st Overall Tour de Luxembourg : 1st Côte Picarde : 1st Bordeaux–Caudéran : 2nd Overall Tour de l'Avenir ::1st Stage 3 ( TTT) : 3rd Duo Normand (with Marcel Wüst) : 5th Road race, National Road Championships ;1993 : 2nd Polynormande : 4th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 5th Overall Tour du Limousin : 9th Overall Tour d'Armorique Grand Tour results Source: Tour de France *1993: 15th *1994: DNF *1997: DNF Vuelta a España *1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allevard
Allevard (; also known as Allevard-les-Bains) is a Communes of France, commune in the Isère Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. The commune has been awarded two flowers by the National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom in the Competition of Cities and Villages in Bloom. Geography Allevard is located in the Belledonne mountains 40 km south-east of Chambéry and 38 km north-east of Grenoble. The commune is accessed by the D525 from Goncelin in the south-west following the mountain ridge through the village and continuing north-east to La Chapelle-du-Bard. There are also some minor roads such as the D9 parallel to the D525 going to the north and the D108 which accesses the village from the D525. There is a tortuous mountain road - the D109 - which goes east of the village and eventually circles back to the north of the commune. The town has quite a large urban area in the west of the commune however the rest o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Collet D'Allevard
Le Collet d'Allevard is a ski resort in the Belledonne range of the French Alps, located in the department of Isère in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, approximately from Allevard. The ski area extends over the communes of Allevard and La Chapelle-du-Bard. The resort was created in 1955 on former communal pastures and served by a new road following the route of the old forest road. The resort reached its current size in 1975, subsequent developments having mainly consisted of improving the existing resort. It is made up of the resort of Collet d'Allevard itself at an altitude of as well as the snow areas of Pré Rond at an altitude of and Super Collet at an altitude of . The ski area rises to an altitude of almost at Les Plagnes. Sport Alpine skiing Routes There are four very different sectors within the resort, each defined by its orientation, landscape and altitude: These are Malatrait, which faces southwest at altitudes between ; Fontaineterre, facing north-northwest at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Échirolles
Échirolles (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Isère Departments of France, department, southeastern France. Part of the Grenoble urban unit (agglomeration), it is the second-largest suburb of the city of Grenoble, which is immediately to its north. History A former industrial village had the majority of its inhabitants work in the viscose factories, a fabric that was invented in Échirolles in 1884 by the French scientist and industrial Hilaire de Chardonnet, before becoming universally famous. The process for manufacturing viscose was then patented by three British scientists, Charles Frederick Cross, Edward John Bevan and Clayton Beadle, in 1891. Population Criminality Located just next to Grenoble, Échirolles doesn't escapes to the growth of criminality, especially since the 2020s. It's mainly related to drug traffic. 2023: Two men are hit by bullet at Échirolles and Le Pont-de-Claix, Le-Pont-de-Claix, on August 21th. 2024: On August, France 3 Rhône-Alp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
