A Day At The Greatest Cycling Event On Earth: Tour De France Fixed

A Day At The Greatest Cycling Event On Earth: Tour De France Fixed

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In the same company as the Summer Games, the World Cup is right up there at the top in terms of popularity. This 32-team tournament (which will be expanded to 48 teams in 2026) features national soccer teams from around the globe competing until ultimately one team is crowned champion. Held quadrennially, the World Cup is the pinnacle event in the sport and boasts huge attendance numbers every year. The 1950 Final game holds the record for attendance at a sporting event in an enclosed stadium with a whopping 199,854 spectators.

North Americans may be surprised to find cricket on a list of most watched sporting events, but fans of the sport are well aware of how hugely popular cricket is in many parts of the world. The Cricket World Cup is the international championship for One Day International cricket. The contest features ten teams and lasts just over six weeks. Like the soccer World Cup, the tournament takes place every four years, with the next Cricket World Cup scheduled for 2023 in India.

Watching the Tour de France in person is a magical experience. The Tour is the most famous cycling event in the world and you get the chance to experience the electric atmosphere and history being made in front of your eyes.

This feature was originally published in issue 388 of Cycling Plus magazine.\nWith a bit of luck, we\u2019ll be back doing all the things we love best in cycling through 2022.\nWe\u2019ve scoured the road and gravel calendar and picked out the key dates to look out for.\nHere are 10 of the best experiences and blockbuster events in the UK and abroad that you need to make an appointment with through the coming year.\n1. Ride the closest thing to the original 1903 Tour de France\n\n The 2022 Transcontinental Race includes a checkpoint on the Passo di Gavia in Italy. Peter Luxem \/ Getty Images\nOkay, so the equipment and navigation at our disposal in 2022 are radically improved from over a century ago, but in terms of spirit, accessibility to enter and a stripping of all the bells and whistles of bike racing, the Transcontinental Race, the self-supported solo bike race across the roads of Europe, is a magnificent echo of those early Tours.\nAfter two editions lost to the pandemic, race number eight returns on 24 July with its now traditional start in Geraardsbergen, Belgium and a finish in Burgas, Bulgaria, more than 4,000km away.\nEn-route, riders must pass through checkpoints in the Czech Republic, Italy (on the Passo di Gavia, no less), Montenegro and Romania.\nThe race, says the organisation, is \u201crider against rider, living by their wits alone, without caravan or entourage guided by personal integrity, mutual respect and a collective commitment to equality. At the sharp end, it is a beautifully hard bicycle race, simple in design but complex in execution.\u201d\nWhat? Transcontinental Race\nWhere? Geraardsbergen, Belgium to Burgas, Bulgaria\nWhen?\u00a024 July\nDetails: Transcontinental\n2. Try the new RideLondon\n\n The RideLondon 100 will take riders from central London out into the Essex countryside. Simon Wilkinson \/ SWPix.com\nMake a date with the all-new RideLondon festival. It\u2019s got a new date (Sunday 29 May), a new partner (Surrey is out, Essex is in) and a new format (all events take place on the same day).\nThe future of the sportive, the RideLondon 100, looked to be in doubt following Surrey council\u2019s withdrawal of support, but Essex has stepped into the breach.\nThe route is still to be revealed, but the sportive will start in central London, head out into the Essex countryside for 60 miles and return to the capital. It will be accompanied by a three-day women\u2019s WorldTour pro race (27-29 May) and closed-road family rides.\nThe first 10,000 entries for the sportive have sold out but you can still enter the ballot, which closes on 20 January. Entry is \u00a389.\nWhat? RideLondon festival\nWhere? London\nWhen?\u00a029 May\nDetails: RideLondon\n3. Get stuck into multi-day gravel rides\n\n Enjoy spectacular views of the Atlas Mountains as you navigate 335km in Morocco on one of two Gravel Epic events in 2022. Or head to Spain for the 1,250km Desertus Bikus.\nWe\u2019ve been big fans of the multi-day Haute Route road sportive series, and last month saw the 10th anniversary of their definitive Alps event.\nWelcome, then, to the gravel version. Gravel Epic is organised by the same folks who, for 2022, have two events, in Marrakech (31 March to 2 April) and Switzerland (23 to 25 September).\nLike the road events, Gravel Epic will have a focus on point-to-point racing, high mountains and gruelling, if sporting, daily distances, with fully supported off-the-bike logistics meaning your bags are transported between stages.\nEntry, accommodation and food for the events is \u20ac799 for the Marrakech event, while entry alone for Switzerland is \u20ac449. If three days of gravel racing doesn\u2019t scratch the itch, take a look at Desertus Bikus (23 April to 1 May), a 1,250km route through Spain from the Bay of Biscay in the north to the Costa del Sol in the south.\nThis ride, like the Transcontinental Race, is self-supported and self-guided, with 90 per cent navigated by road. But while you start and end by water, three of the four checkpoints to be visited, hence the name, are in different deserts.\nWhat?\u00a0Desertus Bikus\nWhere? Anglet, France to Nerja, Spain\nWhen? 23 April to 1 May\nDetails: Desertus Bikus\n4. Experience the Tour de France in the world\u2019s greatest cycling city\n\n What better place to start this year\u2019s Tour than bike-friendly Copenhagen? Leo Patrizi \/ Getty Images\nForeign starts to the Tour have become increasingly common since the 1970s and, on 1 July 2022, Denmark (Copenhagen) becomes the ninth country to host one.\nThat means it\u2019s a complete Grand D\u00e9part bingo card for what are widely regarded as the three best cities to cycle in the world (Amsterdam held it in 1954, Utrecht in 2015).\nIn fact, the Copenhagenize Index, a comprehensive ranking of bike-friendly cities from the eponymous urban design company, ranked Copenhagen as number one at the last count in 2019. An impressive 44 per cent of all trips to work and education in the Danish capital are by bike, with 673,000 bikes in the city alone.\nSo yes, go to witness the world\u2019s biggest bike race set off, but stay to experience cycling that\u2019s truly integrated into a city.\nWhat? Tour de France 2022 Grand D\u00e9part\nWhere? Copenhagen, Denmark\nWhen? 1 July\nDetails: Tour de France 2022\n5. Ride one of the UK\u2019s toughest long-distance sportives\n\n The Dartmoor Legend is billed as \u201cthe toughest cycling challenge in the south west\u201d. Joseph Branston \/ Immediate Media\n\u201cPrincetown is renowned for taking prisoners,\u201d say the organisers, referring to the town\u2019s Dartmoor Prison, which dates back to the 1800s.\n\u201cThe Dartmoor Legend will be no exception!\u201d\nThe ride (9 July) certainly matches that billing, with a 200-mile (323km) route traversing the national park that, by the end, will have seen you climb 18,000ft (5,500m).\nThe distance is matched by the cap on participants, which is limited to 200. You also have a time limit of 20 hours!\nOne month before the ride, you will receive a detailed manual as to what\u2019s in store for the ride, which costs \u00a3100. You\u2019ll start in Princetown, and pass through the town three times before the finish.\nWhat? Dartmoor Legend\nWhere? Princetown, Devon\nWhen? 9 July\nDetails: Dartmoor Legend\n6. Bury your head in one of this year\u2019s best cycling books\n\n Andy McGrath\u2019s God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, is published on 10 March.\nPrefer to stay at home or want some holiday reading? Here are three picks from the latest cycling releases.\nFormer German pro cyclist Jan Ullrich resurfaced last year after a troubled period in his private life, and finished the 312km Mallorca gran fondo in October. It\u2019s timely, then, that pro-cycling journalist Daniel Friebe will release his biography of Ullrich this year.\nTwenty-five years since \u2018Der Kaiser\u2019 won the Tour de France, the book \u2013 provisional title The Best There Never Was (Pan Macmillan) \u2013 will delve deep into the backstory of one of the great enigmas of modern cycling.\nAlso confirmed for 10 March publication is Rouleur editor Andy McGrath\u2019s God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling\u2019s Great Wasted Talent (Bantam Press).\nThe Belgian could ride a bike as fast as he lived life off it and was a talent ultimately lost to his addictions before his premature death in 2009.\n\n A Cyclist\u2019s Guide to the Pyrenees by Peter Cossins is out now.\nMeanwhile, journalist and author Peter Cossins lives in the Pyrenees and he\u2019s used his local knowledge to produce his latest book, A Cyclist\u2019s Guide to the Pyrenees (\u00a316.99, Great Northern Books).\nCossins details all the climbs made famous by the Tour de France, and plenty more obscure ascents that the world\u2019s biggest bike race could never contemplate squeezing in, and links them together to create routes that can be tackled in a day or tour.\n7. Explore new parts of the country with Cycling UK\n\n Cycling UK continues to be busy creating world-class bikepacking routes. Jordan Gibbons\nCharitable membership organisation Cycling UK has been mightily busy in the last few years, creating multi-terrain, circular bikepacking routes, including Cornwall\u2019s West Kernow Way and the King Alfred\u2019s Way in the south of England.\nIt\u2019s launching a couple more routes in 2022, in Kent and Norfolk, but rather than vast, multi-day circular or point-to-points, routes in these two locations will be based around \u2018hubs\u2019, or cycle-friendly places that have all the accoutrements cyclists need to enjoy a day or more of a riding break.\nThink multiple options based out of the same place, plus bike shops, eateries and the like. The exciting Kent and Norfolk projects are a pilot for future hubs across the country.\nWhat? Cycling UK\u2019s new long-distance routes\nWhere? Kent and Norfolk\nWhen? Launch date TBC\nDetails: Cycling UK\n8. Tackle an American gravel race\n\n Head west to the Flint Hills of Kansas for four days of adventure, American style. Andy Chastain\nThe US is where gravel riding as we know it now was born, but differences in terrain and road-network design make gravel over the Atlantic largely very different to the UK and elsewhere.\nIn the US, gravel roads are so extensive and so free of highway-bound traffic, that huge races can be plotted exclusively on dirt and gravel roads. Travel-restrictions permitting, 2022 could be your chance to try one.\nThe 200-mile Unbound Gravel on 4 June (formerly the Dirty Kanza) in Kansas\u2019 Flint Hills remains the most prestigious, but there are so many more.\nThe country-wide Belgian Waffle Ride series are mixed road\/off-road races, inspired by the terrain of the northern Classics pro races.\nThe \u2018Black\u2019 course of SBT Gravel\u00a0in Colorado on 14 August is a huge day out, too: 229km and 2,743m of elevation starting at over 2,000m above sea level.\nWhat? Unbound Gravel\nWhere? Emporia, Kansas\nWhen? 4 June\nDetails: Garmin Unbound Gravel\n9. Go retro at the Eroica Britannia\n\n You may even bump into a cycling legend at Eroica Britannia festival this year. Tony Adamson\nThe export of vintage bike festival Eroica, from its home in Tuscany, around the world has been a huge success story, not least with the British version.\nBut the festival, which is centred around a ride that participants do on bikes and in gear and clothing that pre-dates 1987, has a change of owner and location for 2022.\nIt was announced in the summer that the Goodwood Estate in West Sussex had bought the festival and will stage it in the South Downs.\n\u201cThe stories of heroism from cycling\u2019s glorious past will come alive as we create a festival that will delight cycling fans from around the world,\u201d says the Duke of Richmond, who owns the estate. It takes place from 6-7 August.\nWhat? Eroica Britannia\nWhere? Goodwood Estate, West Sussex\nWhen? 6-7 August\nDetails: Eroica Britannia\n10. Witness an international event in Britain\n\n Geraint Thomas wins the 2014 Commonwealth Games road race in Glasgow. Ryan Pierse \/ Getty Images\nFor the third time this century, the Commonwealth Games returns to Britain, this time in Birmingham (28 July to 8 August). The competition in track cycling is strong, with Australia, New Zealand and Canada all big contenders at international level.\nThere\u2019s also the quirk of seeing riders who usually compete under the Union Jack instead competing under different flags, with Geraint Thomas and Mark Cavendish riding for Wales and the Isle of Man respectively. The track events are taking place in London\u2019s Olympic velodrome.\nRoad-race fans can, as ever, enjoy ticketless viewing if they head to Warwick, where riders will tackle laps of a 16km course (7 for women, 10 for men).\nWhat? Cycling at the 2022 Commonwealth Games\nWhere? London (track cycling), Warwick (road cycling)\nWhen? 28 July to 8 August\nDetails: Birmingham 2022\n","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/21\/2022\/01\/Cycling-events-2022-1d64ca4.jpg?quality=90&resize=768,574","width":768,"height":574},"headline":"10 unmissable cycling events and experiences to plan in 2022","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"John Whitney"}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"BikeRadar","url":"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/21\/2019\/03\/cropped-White-Orange-da60b0b-04d8ff9.png?quality=90&resize=265,53","width":182,"height":60}},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","xpath":["\/html\/head\/title","\/html\/head\/meta[@name='description']\/@content"],"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/features\/routes-and-rides\/2022-cycling-events\/"},"datePublished":"2022-01-08T14:00:19+00:00","dateModified":"2022-01-08T14:01:09+00:00"}] 10 unmissable cycling events and experiences to plan in 2022 From multi-day gravel rides to cycling's greatest race, here are 10 unmissable experiences to plan in 2022 2b1af7f3a8