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When we met up with him at the Orange wifi cafe during the Cannes Festival, Henri Terreaux, national project leader with Orange Events Solutions, shared some exclusive insights with us, revealing the technical resources to be deployed by Orange’s teams for the coming Tour de France, which will be a particularly special event, celebrating its [...]

The excitement preceding the centenary edition of the Tour de France notched up a level this week as the teams selected to ride in this historic event were announced. Twenty-two professional cycling teams have been chosen to compete, including five from France, three from the Netherlands and two each from Italy, Spain, Belgium, Spain and [...]

To celebrate the 100th edition of the Tour de France, which will get underway in Corsica on June 29th, the Monnaie de Paris (the official coin manufacturer) and French bank LCL have created an exclusive and limited edition of gold and silver coins. To mark the occasion for this very special edition of the Grande [...]

The 2013 Tour de France is set to begin in exactly 100 days and Corsica, who will host the prologue for the first time in history, is raring to go! As an integral part of France’s cultural heritage, the Tour de France has however never set foot, or wheel, in Corsica, more used to epic [...]

The 2013 Tour de France has not even begun, yet Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour, is already looking ahead to 2014! He has revealed the details of the opening stages of the 2014 Tour, which will kick off in the UK on July 5, 2014. The first three days of the competition will [...]

Article written by Alex Kay, guest blogger for the live Orange blog. Each summer for the past nineteen years I have been glued to my television watching the Tour de France. I saw the likes of LeMond, Indurain and Armstrong come and go. I learned about the different competitions within the Tour, the etiquette among [...]

Charly Mottet, a legend of French cycling, has been working for Orange France’s sponsoring team for the past three years as a driver of one of the cars following the Tour de France. Each year during the race, he drives Orange’s guests along the route of the Tour, sharing with them his expertise and knowledge with [...]

Once again this year, I was able to enter the technical area to meet up with Henri Terreaux, national project leader in charge of the Tour de France, as the 99th Tour comes to an end and we celebrate Bradley Wiggins’ victory. Looking back, how does he think this year’s race went? What technical difficulties [...]

Written by Alex Kay, guest blogger for the live Orange blog During a typical Tour de France, a team car will cover around 10,000km, driving to and from the stages and then pursuing the peleton as it races across Europe. For the 18th stage of the Tour, and 222km of their journey, I joined directeur [...]

The 2012 Tour de France ended on Sunday with Mark Cavendish’s record stage win and the overall triumph of Great Britain’s Bradley Wiggins. For this second year on the Grande Boucle, the live Orange blog was able to get a feel of the competition from within, thanks to Orange France’s sponsoring team, masterfully led by [...]

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