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“The Tour - The Legend of the Race” sheds new light on 100 years of Tour de France, the cycling race that has become one of the world's most popular sporting events. The 100-year-old Tour has an eventful history, with many ups and downs, triumphs and scandals, which fitted into the era time and again. However, one key feature of the Tour has never changed: the strong sense of identification that the public has with the riders. They are mythical figures, which are accessible, but at the same time very inaccessible. This film highlights the human side of the Tour, through stories of a choice of heroes who symbolize not only the Tour, but also an era. Men like Coppi, Bobet, Anquetil, Poulidor, Merckx, Hinault, Indurain and Armstrong embody their generation in this film. All those personal stories are ingeniously interwoven with the story of the Tour de France itself in “The Tour - The Legend of the Race” with the help of archive footage, with the aim of telling a sports story that is as timeless as it is heroic.
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