Resolving the puzzle of the changing past by Geddes, A

“…Barlassina and Del Prete argue that the past can change, on the basis that there is no other explanation for the truth values of certain claims involving the past-tense predicate ‘won the Tour de France in 2000’. To establish this, they argue that no contextualist account of this predicate will be able to explain these truth values. …”

Turning a traditional teaching setting into a feedback-rich environment by Arturo González

“…This need is met here by introducing a game (a cyclist race inspired by ‘Le Tour de France’) built around a Student Response System where students are addressed with questions aligned to learning outcomes, which they answer on their own tablets, laptops or smartphones during lectures. …”
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L’anthropologie historique spatialisée d’Alain Dewerpe by Jean Boutier

“…Both were present from the Tour de France royal, co-authored with Jean Boutier and Daniel Nordman (1984), to the book he was working on when he died, on the workers of Ansaldo from the middle of the19th century to the 1930s (2017). …”
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Un estudio de los efectos de la promoción turística y el impacto mediático de la Vuelta Ciclista a España en el contexto de la región de Extremadura by Rocío Blanco Gregory, María Porro Nieto

“…It is usually held at the end of August or the beginning of September, thus closing the three major cycling tours that lead the men’s World Tour category, which usually begin in May with the Giro d’Italia and continue in July with the Tour de France.  This research analyzes some of the stages of the 2013 route that make up this great Vuelta in order to find out the social and tourist impact that they caused to the different localities through which they travelled and stayed overnight. …”
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Energy methods for analyzing drag and inertia in cycling kinematics by Steinhardt, Emma Marie

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« Comme si nous étions à la contredanse » : chorégraphies utopiques chez Claire de Duras et George Sand by Tessa Ashlin Nunn

“…George Sand, dans Le Compagnon du Tour de France (1840), contraste la possibilité de l’amour entre des personnages de classes différentes lors des contredanses avec l’impossibilité de ces unions dans la vie quotidienne. …”
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Point of Interest Recognition and Tracking in Aerial Video during Live Cycling Broadcasts by Jelle Vanhaeverbeke, Robbe Decorte, Maarten Slembrouck, Sofie Van Hoecke, Steven Verstockt

“…Road cycling races, such as the Tour de France, captivate millions of viewers globally, combining competitive sportsmanship with the promotion of regional landmarks. …”
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Optimizing cycling power by Springer, Alexander D

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The Glocalization of Sport: A Research Field for Social Innovation by Zijing Li, Arnaud Waquet, Philippe Campillo

“…Global events such as the FIFA World Cup, the NBA’s international expansion, and the Tour de France illustrate how global frameworks adapt to local contexts. …”
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Аналіз умов виникнення та змагальної діяльності лижних марафонів Visma Ski Classics by Andrii Kazmiruk, Olexandr Chenikalo, Olha Zinkiv, Yurii Liubizhanin

“…The basis for which, in its turn, were multi-day cycling competitions, namely Tour de France. This is a positive component in the development and popularization of ski racing, because it, like most winter sports, is a conservative sport. …”
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Power Profile Index: An Adjustable Metric for Load Monitoring in Road Cycling by Manuel Mateo-March, José Ramón Lillo-Beviá, Gabriel della Mattia, Xabier Muriel, David Barranco-Gil, Mikel Zabala, Javier Courel-Ibáñez, José Antonio Salas-Montoro

“…Subsequently, the PPi was computed and compared to current indexes using data from a WorldTour team during the 2018 Tour de France. The proposed index showed a strong correlation with perceived fatigue as a function of stage type (R² = 0.9996), as well as no differences in the load quantification in different types of stage profiles (<i>p</i> = 0.292), something that does not occur with other indexes such as TSS, RPE, or eTRIMP (<i>p</i> < 0.001). …”
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Cyclist Effort Features: A Novel Technique for Image Texture Characterization Applied to Larynx Cancer Classification in Contact Endoscopy—Narrow Band Imaging by Nazila Esmaeili, Axel Boese, Nikolaos Davaris, Christoph Arens, Nassir Navab, Michael Friebe, Alfredo Illanes

“…Each of these paths can be thought of as a Tour de France stage profile where a cyclist needs to perform a specific effort to arrive at the finish line. …”
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Metabolomics of Endurance Capacity in World Tour Professional Cyclists by Iñigo San-Millán, Iñigo San-Millán, Iñigo San-Millán, Davide Stefanoni, Janel L. Martinez, Kirk C. Hansen, Angelo D’Alessandro, Travis Nemkov

“…Here we employed targeted and untargeted metabolomics approaches to investigate whole blood responses to exercise in elite World Tour (including Tour de France) professional cyclists before and after a graded maximal physiological test. …”
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