Professional Cycling - Tour de France, 92 or 102 years old?

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Ti-Fan
07-06-05, 12:55 PM
If the first Tour was organized in 1903 (the Tour celebrated 100 year in 2003), why is this year's the 92th edition and not the 102nd?


timmhaan
07-06-05, 01:00 PM
the tour didn't happen during the world wars, right? if i had to guess, that would be my answer.


edit - just looked it up - http://www.rauzulusstreet.com/features/tourdefrance.html - turns out i'm right :p

Hawkear
07-06-05, 01:02 PM
the tour didn't happen during the world wars, right? if i had to guess, that would be my answer.
That would be a good guess.

Kind of hard to do the Tour de France with german tanks running around.


Ti-Fan
07-06-05, 01:14 PM
Thanks.