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Deceased |
Death is the termination of the biological functions that define a living organism. It refers both to a particular event and to the condition that results thereby. The true nature of the latter has for millennia been a central concern of the world's...
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Hail is a form of solid precipitation which consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, that are individually called hail stones. Hail stones on Earth consist mostly of water ice and measure between 5 and 150 millimeters in diameter, with the...
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1 (one) is a number, numeral, and the name of the glyph representing that number. It represents a single entity, the unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of "unit length" is a line segment of length 1.
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Rain is liquid precipitation, as opposed to other kinds of precipitation such as snow, hail and sleet. On Earth, it is the condensation of atmospheric water vapor into drops heavy enough to fall, often making it to the surface. Rain is the primary...
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Snow is a type of precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes that fall from clouds. Since snow is composed of small ice particles, it is a granular material. It has an open and therefore soft...
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The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race that covers approximately 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi) throughout France and bordering countries. The race lasts three weeks and attracts cyclists from around the world. The race is broken into day-long...
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The 2001 Tour de France was relatively difficult, with a number of heavy mountain stages, a team time trial and a climbing time trial. France was ridden 'clockwise', and thus the Alps were visited before the Pyrenees. The Tour started in France, but...
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A velodrome is an arena for track cycling. Modern velodromes feature steeply banked oval tracks, consisting of two 180-degree circular bends connected by two straights. The straights transition to the circular turn through a moderate easement curve....
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U S Postal Service |
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States...
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Fog is a cloud that is in contact with the ground. A cloud may be considered partly fog; for example, the part of a cloud that is suspended in the air above the ground is not considered fog, whereas the part of the cloud that comes in contact with...
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| 2002 Tour de France |
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The 2002 Tour de France started in Luxembourg on July 6, 2002, and ended in Paris on July 28. France was visited counter-clockwise, so the Pyrenees were there before the Alps. On average, the stages were shorter than in previous years, in an attempt...
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2 (two) (pronounced /ˈtuː/ ( listen)) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3.
Two has many properties in mathematics. An integer is called even if it is divisible by 2. For integers written in a numeral...
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| Lance Armstrong |
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Lance Edward Gunderson |
Lance Edward Armstrong (born Lance Edward Gunderson on September 18, 1971) is an American professional road racing cyclist who rides for UCI ProTeam Radio Shack. He is also the founder and chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation for cancer...
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The Discovery Channel |
Discovery Channel (formerly The Discovery Channel) is an American satellite and cable TV channel (also delivered via IPTV, terrestrial television and internet television in other parts of the world), founded by John Hendricks and distributed by...
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| Eddy Merckx |
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De kannibaal (The Cannibal) |
Edouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx (Flemish pronunciation: [ˈmerks]) (born 17 June 1945 in Meensel-Kiezegem, now part of Tielt-Winge, Flemish Brabant), better known as Eddy Merckx, is a Belgian former professional cyclist. The French magazine Vélo...
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Ronde van Vlaanderen |
The Tour of Flanders (Dutch: Ronde van Vlaanderen, French: Tour des Flandres) is a road cycling race held in Flanders, Belgium. It is held every spring, a week before Paris-Roubaix. It is part of the UCI ProTour and one of the so-called monuments of...
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3 (three) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4.
Three is the first odd prime number, and the second smallest prime. It is both the first Fermat prime (2 + 1) and the first Mersenne prime (2 − 1), as...
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Freezing rain is the name given to rain that falls when surface temperatures are below freezing. The raindrops become supercooled while passing through a sub-freezing layer of air, many hundred feet (or meters), just above the surface, and then...
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Tour of Italy |
The Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy), also simply known as The Giro, is a long distance road bicycle racing stage race for professional cyclists held over three weeks in May/early June in and around Italy. It is one of the three Grand Tours, and is...
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| 2003 Tour de France |
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The 2003 Tour de France started and ended in Paris. Lasting from July 5 to July 27 the race covered 3,350 km (2081.58 mi), proceeding clockwise in twenty stages around France, including six major mountain stages. Due to the centennial celebration,...
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Protest expresses relatively overt reaction to events or situations: sometimes in favor, though more often opposed. Protesters may organize a protest as a way of publicly and forcefully making their opinions heard in an attempt to influence public...
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| Greg LeMond |
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Gregory James "Greg" LeMond (born June 26, 1961) is a former professional road bicycle racer from the United States and a three-time winner of the Tour de France. He was born in Lakewood, California.
In 1986, LeMond became the first American cyclist...
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| Col du Tourmalet |
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Col du Tourmalet (2,115 m / 6,939 ft) is the highest road in the central Pyrenees in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France. Sainte-Marie-de-Campan is at the foot on the eastern side and the ski station La Mongie two-thirds of the way up. Luz...
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| Paris-Roubaix |
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Queen of the Classics |
Paris–Roubaix is a one-day professional bicycle road race in northern France near the Belgian frontier. Since its beginning in 1896 until 1967 it started in Paris and ended in Roubaix (hence the name); since 1968 the start city is Compiègne (about...
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Vuelta a Espana |
The Vuelta a España (English: Tour of Spain) is a three-week road bicycle racing stage race that is one of the three "Grand Tours" of Europe and part of the UCI World Ranking calendar.
First held in 1935 and annually since 1955, the Vuelta runs for...
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| Individual time trial |
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An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: contre la montre - literally "against the watch"). There are also track-based time trials where riders compete in velodromes, and team...
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| 2004 Tour de France |
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The 2004 Tour de France was the 91st, taking place from July 3 to July 25, 2004. It consisted of 20 stages over 3429 km.
Lance Armstrong became the first to win six Tours de France.
Armstrong was favored to win, his competitors seen as being German...
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| Bjarne Riis |
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The Eagle from Herning |
Bjarne Lykkegård Riis (born April 3, 1964 in Herning), nicknamed the Eagle from Herning (Danish: Ørnen fra Herning), is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer who won the 1996 Tour de France, and is now the team owner and manager of Danish...
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| Joaquim Agostinho |
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Joaquim Fernandes Agostinho, OIH (born Praia de Santa Cruz, Torres Vedras, Portugal, 7 April 1943, died Quarteira, 10 May 1984) was a Portuguese professional bicycle racer. He was champion of Portugal in six successive years . He rode the Tour de...
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| Michael Rogers |
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Michael Rogers (born 20 December 1979 in Barham, New South Wales) is an Australian professional road bicycle racer who rides for Team Columbia-HTC. Rogers turned professional in 1999 with Mapei, which became Quick Step. In 2005 Rogers joined T...
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| Miguel Indurain |
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Miguelón |
Miguel Ángel Indurain Larraya (born 16 July 1964, Villava, Navarre) is a retired Spanish road racing cyclist. He is best known for winning the Tour de France from 1991 to 1995, becoming only the fourth person to win the event five times, and the...
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| Groupset |
A groupset or gruppo (from the Italian for "group", often misspelled grouppo) is a bicycle component manufacturer's organized collection of mechanical parts. It generally refers to all of the components that make up a bicycle excluding the bicycle...
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| Injury |
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Insult |
Injury or bodily injury is damage or harm caused to the structure or function of the body caused by an outside agent or force, which may be physical or chemical, and either by accident or intentional. Personal Injury also refers to damage caused to...
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| Summit |
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In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation. The topographic terms "acme", "apex", "peak", "summit", and "zenith"...
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| Thor Hushovd |
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The Bear (or Bull) from Grimstad |
Thor Hushovd (born January 18, 1978) is a Norwegian professional road bicycle racer, riding for Cervélo TestTeam. Hushovd is known for sprinting and time trialing. He is a former Norwegian time trial champion. He is the first, and to date the only,...
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| David Millar |
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David Millar (born 4 January 1977, Mtarfa, Malta) is a British road racing cyclist. He has won three stages of the Tour de France and two of the Vuelta a España. He was the British national road champion and the national time trial champion, both...
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| Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team |
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US Postal Service (Formerly) |
Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team (UCI Team Code: DSC) was a United States-based professional road bicycle racing team. It was the continuation of the 2004 U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team. Lance Armstrong, seven-time Tour de France winner, was...
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| Team Columbia-HTC |
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Team High Road |
Team Columbia-HTC (UCI team code:THR) is a professional cycling team competing in international road bicycle races. In June 2009, the team announced a three year sponsorship of the team with HTC. Starting with the 2009 Tour de France, the team began...
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| Cadel Evans |
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Cadel Lee Evans (born 14 February 1977) is an Australian professional racing cyclist on the BMC team, and the reigning world road race champion. In 2007, Evans became the first Australian to win the UCI ProTour. He has the highest Tour de France...
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| Sergei Valeryevich Ivanov |
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Sergei Valeryevich Ivanov (Russian: Сергей Валерьевич Иванов) (born March 5, 1975 in Chuvashia, Soviet Union) is a professional road bicycle racer since 1996. He cycles with Team Katusha. He has, however, been a professional since 1996 - being a...
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| Ivan Basso |
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Ivan the Terrible |
Ivan Basso (born 26 November 1977) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer who is currently racing with Italian UCI pro tour team Liquigas. Basso, nicknamed Ivan the Terrible, is among the best mountain riders in the professional field of the...
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| Racing bicycle |
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A racing bicycle, commonly known as a road bike, is a bicycle designed for road cycling according to the rules of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The UCI rules were altered in 1934 to exclude recumbent bicycles.
The most important things...
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| Use of performance enhancing drugs in sport |
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Doping |
In sports, the use of performance-enhancing drugs is commonly referred to by the disparaging term "doping", particularly by those organizations that regulate competitions. The use of performance enhancing drugs is mostly done to improve athletic...
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| Tom Danielson |
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Tom Danielson (born March 13, 1978 in East Lyme, Connecticut, U.S.) is a professional road bicycle racer. Previously riding for the Saturn Team on the U.S. Pro Circuit, and for Fassa Bortolo in Europe, Danielson is currently a member of Team Garmin...
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| 2005 Tour de France |
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The 2005 Tour de France was the 92nd Tour de France, taking place from July 2 to July 24, 2005. It comprised 21 stages over 3607 km, the winner's average speed was 41.654 km/h. The first stages were held in the département of the Vendée, for the...
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| Team Astana |
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Astana |
Astana (UCI team code: AST) is a professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by the Astana group, a coalition of state-owned companies from Kazakhstan and named after its capital city Astana. Astana attained UCI ProTeam status in its inaugural...
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| Climbing specialist |
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A climbing specialist is a road bicycle racer who can ride especially well on highly inclined roads, such as those found among hills or mountains.
In a sustained climb, the average speed declines, the aerodynamic advantage of drafting is diminished...
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| Cycling sprinter |
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A cycling sprinter is a road bicycle racer or track racer who can finish a race very explosively by accelerating quickly to a high speed, often using the slipstream of another cyclist or group of cyclists tactically to conserve energy.
Sprinters...
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| Time trialist |
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A time trialist is a road bicycle racer who can maintain high speeds for long periods of time, to maximize performance during individual or team time trials.
In a traditional individual time trial, riders set off alone (not in a group or peloton) at...
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| Cycling domestique |
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A domestique is a road bicycle racer who works for the benefit of his team and leader. The French domestique translates as "servant". The word was coined in 1911, although such riders had existed before then.
Much of a cyclist's effort is to push...
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| Liège-Bastogne-Liège |
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Liege-Bastogne-Liege |
Liège-Bastogne-Liège, often called La Doyenne ("the oldest"), is one of the five 'Monuments' of the European professional road cycling calendar, and one of 24 races in which points can be gained towards the UCI World Ranking. The first edition was...
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| 1998 Tour de France | Tour of Doping |
The 1998 Tour de France, also called the Tour de Dopage (Tour of Doping), was marred by doping scandals throughout known as the Festina affair, starting with the arrest of Willy Voet, a soigneur in the French Festina team. Voet was traveling into...
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| Bicycle helmet |
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A bicycle helmet is a helmet intended to be worn while riding a bicycle. They are designed to attenuate impacts to the cranium of a cyclist in falls while minimizing side effects such as interference with peripheral vision. There is an active...
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| Christophe Moreau |
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Christophe Moreau (born April 12, 1971 in Vervins) is a French professional road racing cyclist who rides for the French team Agritubel. For many years Moreau was the only real French contender for the general classification in the Tour de France;...
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| Sérgio Paulinho |
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Sergio Paulinho |
Sérgio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (born March 26, 1980 in Oeiras) is a Portuguese road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Astana. He was a domestique in the 2007 and 2009 Tour de France.
After winning a bronze medal in the 2001 World Championships, in under...
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| Tour Down Under |
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The Tour Down Under is a cycling race in Adelaide, South Australia and surrounding area. The race starts on the third Tuesday of January each year and attracts riders from across Australia and the world. In 2005, the Tour Down Under was promoted by...
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| Bradley Wiggins |
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Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE (born 28 April 1980) is a British professional track and road bicycle racer, currently riding for Garmin-Slipstream, but scheduled to join Team Sky for the 2010 season. He won three medals on the track at the Athens 2004...
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| Stuart O'Grady |
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Stuey |
Stuart O'Grady OAM (born 6 August 1973 in Adelaide), nicknamed Stuey, is an Australian professional road bicycle racer on UCI Pro Tour Team Saxo Bank, who started as a track cyclist. He and Graeme Brown won a gold medal in Men's Madison at the 2004...
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| Paris-Nice |
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the race to the sun |
Paris–Nice, "the race to the sun", is a professional cycling stage race held each March.
The first Paris–Nice was in 1933 when the winner was Alfons Schepers from Belgium. The most successful cyclist in Paris–Nice was Seán Kelly from Ireland. He won...
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