The turn in France

 

The turn in the topicality

Media

Created in 1903 by a Parisian sporting daily newspaper, the Turn is an excellent laboratory for the media during the XXe century. The first radiophonic report on line, by Jean Antoine and Alex Virot takes place in 1930. Consequently, the radio takes a lead in the newspaper, which can give the results only the next morning. The current events cinematographic were never of true competitors, because they always diffused the stages with several days of shift. Television is present on the road of the Turn as of the end of 1940 but must try out all kinds of means in order to ensure a correct report of the race. The first report on line of an alpine top was limited indeed to a fixed plan of the passage of the coll the report took again two hours later with a fixed plan of the finishing line. It is necessary to wait the years 1960 to attend television reports truly on line making penetrate the televiewer in the middle of the race, thanks to cameras embarked on motor bikes relayed by plane or helicopter. Thus, one can define three media ages for the Turn: the newspaper paper of 1903 at the years 1920, then the radio of the years 1930 at the beginning of the years 1960, finally television since the end of 1960. The newspapers paper, the Team at the head, did not abdicate obviously vis-a-vis the rise to power of the radio and television, but the pure description of the stage gradually left the place to from the shifted points of view. Antoine Blondin excelled in this kind.

Doping

Doping is a problem scour Turn. The Belgian pot remained a long time of use and the Pélissier brothers explained all the details of them as of the beginning of the years 1920. The death of Tom Simpson on the road of the Turn on July 13, 1967 is an electric shock for all, runners, organization and spectators. The first controls anti-doping are then set up, but the latter always remain late of a generation. In order to avoid a new case Simpson, doping professionnalise, while the international federation trails feet to reinforce the fight anti-doping and to update the list of the prohibited products. The cyclist racing Pedro Delgado is thus declared positive with the probénécide a few days before its arrival in yellow in Paris, but the organizers of the Outer Loop incline themselves vis-a-vis the pressures of the international federation allowing Delgado to finish its Turn 1988 without being worried. The probénécide was reproduced on the list of the products prohibited by the CIO, but not on that of the UCI. In 1998, the scandal of the Festina business bursts. This business especially clarifies the active participation of the medical staff of the teams to frame the doping of the runners médicalement. Following this business, controls are reinforced and France obtains a more constraining law anti-doping. In spite of these precautions, the suspicions of doping still plane on the Lathe, in particular following the performances of runners like Marco Pantani and Lance Armstrong.

History of the Turn of France:

  1. History of the Turn of France: Beginnings of the Turn
  2. The turn of France: Doping and Media
  3. Chronology of the TDF: the TDF in dates
  4. The turn: shirts of the Turn of France
  5. Prize list of the turn of France: successes!
  6. Stages of the Turn of France: revive the courses
  7. France and the Turn: habits and custom
  8. To bet on the tour de France: Dimensions and councils