Alexandre Blain
Alexandre Blain (born 7 March 1981) is a French former road bicycle racer, who now works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team . He started cycling for his local mountain bike club in his hometown of Peillon in 1997, riding in downhill mountain biking before switching to cross-country. He was a member of UCI ProTeam and Continental teams and . In November 2015 he was announced as a member of the squad for 2016. Major results ;2005 : 1st Stage 4 Volta a Lleida ;2006 : 2nd Points race, National Track Championships ;2007 : 1st Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher : 1st Boucles Catalanes : 1st Stage 2 Tour de Gironde : 1st Stage 5 Ronde de l'Oise : 6th Overall Les 3 Jours de Vaucluse ;2008 : 7th Châteauroux Classic : 8th Grand Prix de Denain ;2010 : 10th East Midlands International CiCLE Classic ;2011 : 1st Overall Tour de Normandie ::1st Stage 7 : 3rd Tallinn–Tartu GP : 6th Paris–Bourges : 7th Druivenkoers Overijse : 9th Tro-Bro Léon ;2012 : 1st Maldon Dengie Tour : ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly 1 millionDemographia: World Urban Areas , Demographia.com, April 2016 on an area of . Located on the , the southeastern coast of France on the , at the foot of the [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Châteauroux Classic
The Châteauroux Classic de l'Indre Trophée Fenioux was a single-day road bicycle race held annually in August in the region of Indre, France, starting and finishing in Châteauroux. It was created in 2004 and since 2005 the race had been organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, also being part of the Coupe de France de cyclisme sur route The French Road Cycling Cup ( English for Coupe de France de cyclisme sur route) is a road bicycle racing competition under the Fédération Francaise de Cyclisme (French Cycling Federation) each year since 1992. It consists of a number of one-da .... After the 2014 edition, the race was discontinued. Winners References External links * History, winner list with link to all results UCI Europe Tour races Recurring sporting events established in 2004 2004 establishments in France Cycle races in France 2014 disestablishments in Italy Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2014 Defunct cycling races in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Druivenkoers Overijse
Druivenkoers Overijse is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in August in Overijse, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to expand cycling around the world. The five circuits (representing the continents of Africa, the .... Winners {{Cycling past winner end External links Official Website UCI Europe Tour races Recurring sporting events established in 1961 1961 establishments in Belgium Cycle races in Belgium Overijse ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Special Broadcasting Service
The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is an Australian hybrid-funded public service broadcaster. About 80 percent of funding for the company is derived from the Australian Government. SBS operates six TV channels ( SBS, SBS Viceland, SBS World Movies, SBS Food, NITV and SBS WorldWatch) and seven radio networks (SBS Radios 1, 2 and 3, Arabic24, SBS Chill, SBS PopDesi and SBS PopAsia). SBS Online is home to SBS On Demand video streaming service. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect Australia's multicultural society".SBS: Frequently Asked Questions SBS Corporation, accessed 26 May 2007 SBS is one of five main [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cycling Central
''Cycling Central'' is an Australian sports program, that talks about the various cycling competitions in Australia and around the world. It is the only free-to-air program in Australia that is dedicated to the sport. Broadcast history The first series began in 2003 over 13 weeks, as a magazine-style program, continuing until 2007 when it was axed. The show returned to a one-hour format on 1 August 2010 and has screened every week for 52 weeks of the year ever since. Taking the show on the road is not uncommon. Cycling Central has been screened live on location at the Tour Down Under, the Jayco Herald-Sun Tour, the Cycling Australia Road National Championships from Ballarat and the UCI Track Cycling World Championships held in Melbourne in April 2012. It currently airs on SBS One on Sunday afternoons at 5pm, and runs for an hour. Presenter Since the start, it had been hosted by Mike Tomalaris, but since Mike left SBS in 2022, a replacement has yet to be advised. See also * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paris–Bourges
Paris–Bourges is a French road bicycle race. The race originally started in Paris and ran to the town of Bourges in the Région Centre. However, in recent year with the length of races shortened it has become impossible to link the two cities and since 1996 the race has started in the town of Gien in the Loiret department which is south of Paris. The official name of the race is now Paris-Gien-Bourges although it is still referred to as Paris–Bourges on the UCI calendar and throughout much of the media.www.parisbourges.fr (Accessed Oct 7 2016) Details amended route and name. The first race was run in 1913, and won by and it has been an annual event since 1990. Since 1949, it has b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tallinn–Tartu GP
Tallinn–Tartu GP (before 2007, the E.O.S. Tallinn GP) was a single-day road bicycle race held annually in June in Tallinn, Estonia. From 2005 until 2012 the race was organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2008, Pro Cycling Club gave up organizing the E.O.S. Tallinn GP and race name was changed to Tallinn–Tartu GP, organized by Club Tartu Maraton. The race was discontinued in 2012, with the same course becoming the first stage of the Tour of Estonia The Tour of Estonia is a road bicycle racing stage race held in Estonia. The race is organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.http://www.tourofestonia.ee/en Tour of Estonia Official Website The race was created by amalgamating two existing ... instead. Winners External links Estonian Cycling Weekend* UCI Europe Tour races Cycle races in Estonia Recurring sporting events established in 2002 2002 establishments in Estonia Summer events in Estonia Defunct cycling races in Estonia 2012 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tour De Normandie
Tour de Normandie is a road bicycle race held annually in the region of Normandy, France. The race started in 1939, but was not held in the periods of 1940–1955 and 1960–1980. It was originally a race for amateurs, but was opened for professionals in 1996. The Tour de Normandie has been one of the races in the UCI Europe Tour since 2005, in the 2.2 category. The race was not held in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ... Winners References External links * UCI Europe Tour races Cycle races in France Recurring sporting events established in 1939 1939 establishments in France {{France-cycling-race-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rutland–Melton CiCLE Classic
The Rutland–Melton International CiCLE Classic is a road bicycle race that starts in Oakham and finishes in Melton Mowbray. The 2008 version was 158 km long. The race is characterised by its off-road sections and short, sharp climbs on narrow and treacherous farm tracks – taking its inspiration from the Paris–Roubaix and Tour of Flanders. Originally part of the British Premier Calendar, from 2008 it is a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race was known as the East Midlands International CiCLE Classic in the years 2007–10 when its principal sponsor was the East Midlands Development Agency East Midlands Development Agency, abbreviated EMDA, was the regional development agency for the East Midlands region of England formed in 1999. Structure and function EMDA’s office was located next to a Premier Inn, BBC East Midlands (and R .... Winners References External links * UCI Europe Tour races Cycle races in England Recurrin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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L'Équipe
''L'Équipe'' (, French for "the team") is a French nationwide daily newspaper devoted to sport, owned by Éditions Philippe Amaury. The paper is noted for coverage of association football, rugby football, rugby, motorsport, and cycle sport, cycling. Its predecessor was ''L'Auto'', a general sports paper whose name reflected not any narrow interest but the excitement of the time in car racing. ''L'Auto'' originated the Tour de France road bicycle racing, road cycling stage race in 1903 as a circulation booster. The race leader's yellow jersey (french: maillot jaune, link=no) was instituted in 1919, probably to reflect the distinctive yellow newsprint on which ''L'Auto'' was published. The competition that would eventually become the UEFA Champions League was also the brainchild of a ''L'Équipe'' journalist, Gabriel Hanot. History ''L'Auto-Vélo'' ''L'Auto'' and therefore ''L'Équipe'' owed its life to a 19th-century French scandal involving soldier Alfred Dreyfus – th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Éditions Philippe Amaury
Éditions Philippe Amaury (EPA), also known as Groupe EPA or the Groupe Amaury, is a French private media group founded by Philippe Amaury (1940–2006) whose widow, Marie-Odile Amaury, owns a majority of the company. The CEO of the company is Aurore Amaury, daughter of Philippe and Marie-Odile Amaury. In partnership with SNC L'Équipe, the group publishes the sports journals ''l'Équipe'', ''l'Équipe Magazine'', France Football and Vélo Magazine. EPA owns the television channel ''l'Équipe 21'', which airs French and international sports competitions like road cycling, rally, motocross, basketball, ice hockey, volleyball, judo, biathlon and the European Games. In 1998, the group launched the L'Équipe television channel as an extension to the newspaper ''L'Équipe''. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Amaury Sport Organisation, is one of the largest promoters of sports events in France, including the Tour de France and Paris–Roubaix bicycle races, the Paris–Dakar Rally, the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2008 Grand Prix De Denain
The 2008 Grand Prix de Denain was the 50th edition of the Grand Prix de Denain cycle race and was held on 17 April 2008. The race started in Raismes and finished in Denain. The race was won by Edvald Boasson Hagen. General classification References Grand Prix de Denain, 2008 2008 in road cycling 2008 in French sport April 2008 sports events in France {{France-cycling-race-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |