Pedagogic opportunities of sports mega-events: teaching geographies of place through the example of the Tour de France cycle race

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Figure 1. Profile of 2022 Tour de France Stage 16, from Carcassonne to Foix Source: Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) 2022

Table 1. Abbreviated version of Stage 16 route itinerary.

Kilometers				Scheduled timings
To go	Travelled	Roads	Location	41 km/h	37 km/h
178.5	0	D104	Carcassonne	12:40	12:40
176.5	2	D104-D204	Cavanac	12:43	12:43
174.4	4.1	D204	Couffoulens	12:46	12:46
173.7	4.8	D104	Leuc	12:47	12:47
170.8	7.7		Verzeille	12:51	12:52
167.1	11.4		Saint-Hilaire	12:56	12:57
164.8	13.7		Côte de Saint-Hilaire	13:00	13:02
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5.8	172.7		Saint-Pierre-de-Rivière	16:52	17:20
3.7	174.8		La Rochelle	16:54	17:23
0	178.5	D117c	Foix	16:58	17:27

Figure 2. 1974 Tour de France route, starting in Brest.

Source: Wikimedia Commons. Andrei I. Loas

Amaury Sport Organisation. (2022). A.S.O. Media Content. Available via: https://mediacontent.aso.fr/mediacontent/identification Retrieved July 24, 2022

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