About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/41dd3d94e058f5cffd4eea743b15bca7e468d5263bd8a0677ba7987a     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

AttributesValues
rdf:type
schema:articleBody
  • The Tour de France is adding a team this year, the organisers announced on Thursday, saying all three Grand Tours have received permission to invite 23 outfits of eight riders. Earlier in the day, the International Cycling Union (UCI) agreed to a request by the Tour, the Vuelta a Espana and the Giro d'Italia to increase their fields. The races argued it would be a gesture of solidarity with sides struggling financially because of the coronavirus pandemic. When this year's Tour starts on June 26 in Brest, in Brittany, the peloton will contain 184 riders, eight more than last year. This signals a change of direction by the Tour, which cut teams from nine riders to eight in 2018, reducing the peloton from 198 cyclists, which was deemed dangerously large. "We fought for a long time for fewer riders at the start because our priority was safety," Tour director Christian Prudhomme told AFP. "But everybody is weakened by the crisis, the teams as well." "We are very sensitive to the fact that the local champions, the champions of the towns and villages passed by the race are protected," said Prudhomme but he added "the 22-team rule will become the rule again in 2022." Prudhomme said the decision meant the Tour could add a French side and include both Breton teams, Arkea-Samsic and BB Hotels, as well as Total Direct Energie, who based in the Vendee, just to the south. "I knew that whatever the choice, there would be a debate," said Prudhomme. "With the two teams from Brittany and the team from Vendee, this allows the party to be 100 per cent complete". jm/pb/iwd
schema:headline
  • Tour de France to add another team to the party
schema:mentions
schema:author
schema:datePublished
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score
http://data.cimple...tology#hasEmotion
Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 3 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software