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Condensed to its basic premise, the Tour de France is a simple athletic contest: The cyclist who completes a strenuous and often perilous course of more than 3,000 kilometers in the lowest total time wins.

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Back in 1910, Tour Directeur Henri Desgranges decided that the Tour needed a new spectacle, and so he set about finding one. He settled on the Tourmalet.

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