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Tour de France (disambiguation)

Tour de France is French for tour of France and is thus the name of several events of practices involving going around France.

• Sports
  • the Tour de France cycliste is a cycling competition;
  • Tour de France is also the title of a Kraftwerk song about the race itself. It was released as a single during the 1980s. The song uses "musical onomatopoeia" of bicyclers breathing hard in order to recreate the struggle of riding hard during the race.
  • The Tour de France automobile was a sports car race held on roads around France. Cancelled due to its being too dangerous, it is now run at reduced speeds for historic cars.

• the Compagnons du Tour de France are an organization of craftsmen and artisans whose traditional technical education includes going around France and being the apprentice of several competent masters.