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The bicycle tour Paris-Beijing 2008 goes through Taganrog

April 27-28, 2008: The exceptional event of international scale arrived in Taganrog on April 27, 2008.



120 participants from France and other countries started from Trocadero place in Paris on March 16, 2008. The project received the patronage of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, of the French National Olympic and Sporting Committee and the sponsorship of the Ministry for Health, Youth and Sports. The aim of this extraordinary excursion is to promote the inherent values of bicycling, Olympic spirit and education through sport and based on a specific and pedagogic program which will take place from 2007 to 2009.

The participants of the expedition will go through the Russian territory April 27- May 10: Taganrog (April 27-28), Rostov on Don (April 28-30), Shakhty (April 30-May 1), Belaya Kalitva (May 1-2), Volgograd (May 4-6), Astrakhan (May 8-10).



The participants of the bicycle tour will ride 12,000 km (around 8,000 miles) in 140 days. Twelve countries will be crossed: France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Moldavia, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and China. The group will arrive in Beijing on August 3, 2008, 5 days prior to the opening of the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing, China.