Puy de Dôme Archives

New Tour de France Route Strategy Produces First-Week Fireworks

July 10, 2023 at 11:11 am4 min reading

Road cycling

You have to take your hat off to the Amaury Sport Organization (ASO), the company that owns and organizes the Tour de France, for wanting to shake up the traditional narrative of the race. In the past, the first week of the Tour has usually…

Michael Woods on Winning Stage 9: “It’s nothing less than a dream come true.“

July 10, 2023 at 10:09 am3 min reading

Road cycling

Canadian cyclist Michael Woods couldn’t contain his joy following his lone triumph on the ninth stage of the Tour de France, culminating at Puy de Dôme. Woods referred to it as the pinnacle of his cycling career.

The Most Iconic Places of the Tour de France

July 3, 2023 at 6:00 am4 min reading

Road cycling

In addition to being a three-week bike race, the Tour de France – like all Grand Tours – is also what the word tour actually means, ‘an extended journey, usually taken for pleasure, visiting places of interest along the route’. It is an actual tour…