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The 91st Tour de France ( July 3 - July 25, 2004).
Lance Armstrong made history, by being the first person to win six Tours de France.
Going in, Armstrong was the favorite to win his sixth consective Tour de France, with his major competitors seen as being German Jan Ullrich, Spaniards Roberto Heras and Iban Mayo, and fellow Americans Levi Leipheimer and Tyler Hamilton.
The route of the 2004 Tour was a remarkable one. With the two individual time trialAn Individual Time Trial (ITT) is a road-based 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. Starting tims both scheduled in the last week, one of them being the epic climb of L' Alpe d'HuezAlpe d'Huez is a mountain at 45° 03' N, 6° 02' E in the Central French Alps, in the Isere departement''. It is 1780 metres (5,839 ft) high. Alpe d'Huez is also a famous ski resort. Tour de France It is one of the most famous of the mountain climbs on the, the directors were hoping for a very close race until the very end of the Tour. For the first time in years, the mountains of the Massif CentralThe Massif Central is an elevated region in south-central France, consiting of mountains and plateaux. Subject to volcanism that has subsided in the last 10,000 years, these central mountains are separated from the Alps by the north-south trending Rhone R made an appearance.
1 Stages
- Prologue2004 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 9 Detailed results of the 2004 Tour de France from the Prologue in Liege, Belgium to Stage 9 (Saint-Leonard-de-Noblat to Gueret). See also: 2004 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 20 Prologue (Time Trial through Liege, LiègeThe city of Liege ( Dutch: Luik German: Luttich on the Meuse River is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Liege, of which it is the capital. On January 1, 2004, Liege had a total population of 185,488 (90,431 males and 95,057 females) and ab, BelgiumFor alternate meanings, see Belgium (disambiguation). Belgian redirects here. For the horse breed commonly used as a draft horse, see Belgian. The Kingdom of Belgium ( Dutch: Belgi French: Belgique German: Belgien is a country in Western Europe, bordered 6.1 km (individual time trial)
- Stage 12004 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 9 Detailed results of the 2004 Tour de France from the Prologue in Liege, Belgium to Stage 9 (Saint-Leonard-de-Noblat to Gueret). See also: 2004 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 20 Prologue (Time Trial through Liege, Liège - Charleroi 202.5 km
- Stage 2, Charleroi - Namur 210 km
- Stage 3, Waterloo - Wasquehal 195 km
- Stage 4, Cambrai - Arras 65 km (team time trial)
- Stage 5, Amiens - Chartres 195 km
- Stage 6, Bonneval - Angers 190 km
- Stage 7, Châteaubriant - Saint-Brieuc 208 km
- Stage 8, Lamballe - Quimper 172 km
- Stage 9, Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat - Guéret 160 km
- Stage 10, Limoges (Massif Central) - Saint-Flour 237 km
- Stage 11, Saint-Flour - Figeac 164 km
- Stage 12, Castelsarrasin - La Mongie 199 km ( Pyrenees)
- Stage 13, Lannemezan - Plateau de Beille 217 km ( Col de Agnes )
- Stage 14, Carcassonne - Nîmes 200 km
- Stage 15, Valréas - Villard-de-Lans 179 km (French Alps)
- Stage 16, Bourg d'Oisans - L' Alpe d'Huez 15 km (individual time trial)
- Stage 17, Bourg d'Oisans - Le Grand Bornand 212 km
- Stage 18, Annemasse - Lons-le-Saunier 166 km
- Stage 19, Besançon - Besançon 60 km (individual time trial)
- Stage 20, Montereau-Fault-Yonne - Paris Champs-Élysées 165 km
Total distance: 3429 km
