A Quote by Marianne Vos
Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.
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Bus routes reach the most obscure corners of Paris. There's also the Metro - and especially the great Line No. 1, which runs on tires under the Champs-Elysees and beyond.
It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
The Champs-Elysees is like the world championships for sprinters.
My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
Walking round the Champs-Elysees late at night is the greatest time.
I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.
Absolutely, in stage races, Froome is better than Eddy Merckx. Maybe he can win five, six Tours de France, but my focus wasn't only on the Tour de France. I was riding all year.
Bike riding is great for your thinking. I can't say I've written an entire tune while cycling, but riding has definitely inspired songwriting ideas.
I always say my three dream wins would be San Remo, Champs-Elysees, and World Championships.
The only event that counts is the Tour, it's the only race that all the media go to. It's far more important than it was in my time, but as I see it cycling is more than the Tour de France.
I think everyone lifts themselves that little bit extra for the Tour de France, being the pinnacle of our cycling calendar.
Every actor starting out wants to be famous. One of my dreams was always to go to Paris, walk up the Champs Elysees, and be recognized, and by God, it happened!
The uptake of people getting involved in cycling is partly down to the big success the team has had in the Tour de France, the Olympics and the World Championships.
When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.
The problem with being a Tour de France winner is you always have that feeling of disappointment if you don't win again. That's the curse of the Tour de France.
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