Tour de Romandie 2008 Tour de Romandie |
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| Race details |
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| Date | Late-April |
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| Region | Romandy, Switzerland |
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| English name | Tour of Romandy |
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| Local name(s) | Tour de Romandie (French) |
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| Discipline | Road |
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| Competition | UCI ProTour |
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| Type | Stage-race |
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| History |
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| First edition | 1947 |
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| Editions | 60 (as of 2008) |
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| First winner | .svg/22px-Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).svg.png) Désiré Keteleer |
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| Most wins |  Stephen Roche (3 wins) |
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| Most recent |  Andreas Kloden |
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The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI ProTour. The 2008 Tour de Romandie (62nd Edition cycling road race took place from April 29 to May 4, 2008 in Switzerland. A stage in Road bicycle racing is a part of a multi-day event such as the Tour de France or the Giro d'Italia. The UCI ProTour is a competition under the International Cycling Union ( UCI) It runs in the old Romandie region, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. The Linguistic geography of Switzerland is on the main tripartite with the Swiss German region ( Deutschschweiz) in the northeast Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation It began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year celebration of the Swiss Cycling. Swiss Cycling is the national governing body of cycle racing in Switzerland.
The race traditionally starts with an individual time trial prologue in Geneva and ends with another individual time-trial in the hilly terrains in Lausanne. An individual time trial (ITT is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French contre la montre - literally "against Geneva (Genève is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French -speaking Lausanne ( pronounced, Losanna is a city in Romandy, the French -speaking part of Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva The final time-trial traditionally starts in the stadium north of Lausanne, goes downhill southwards to the Lac Léman (Lake Geneva), and makes its way back uphill to the stadium again. Lake Geneva or Lake Léman (Lac Léman Léman Lac de Genève is the second largest freshwater Lake in Central Europe in terms of surface area (after
The parcours of the race usually winds northwards towards the Jura mountains and Alpine mountain ranges of western Switzerland. The Jura Mountains are a small Mountain range located north of the Alps, separating the Rhine and Rhone rivers and forming part of
Winners
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