This
exciting and popular bicycle race is held in France every year, and
today is Day 1 of the 2012 race.
Hmm...pedaling
your bicycle as fast as you can in the Alps or Pyrenees Mountains,
and finishing a day's race at the summit of a mountain, sounds tough
enough—to do it for three weeks sounds impossible! Yet people do
it, and they love it, and they come back year after year.
This official website shows a map of the year's racecourse. The race will
finish on July 22 in Paris, with riders traveling one of the most
famous avenues in the world, the Champs-Elysees, to the Arc de
Triomphe (Arch of Triumph).
Celebrate!
Ride
your bicycle today. (Wear a helmet, of course!)
Watch
some of the race, if you can. NBC Sports has some race coverage in
the U.S. and provides videos on its website.
Learn
more about France. Kid Activities has a lot of ideas—including a
Slowest-Bicycle-Wins “race” to honor the Tour de France.
Also
on this date:
Did
you hear that Nik Wallenda crossed Niagara Falls two weeks ago
(Friday, June 15) for the first time in history? Well, Wallenda's
crossing was at the widest, wildest, wettest spot. This 1859 crossing
(by a guy named Gravelet) was a lot tamer because it was higher up on
the river. (But Gravelet later crossed the Falls on a tightrope while
blindfolded, then while pushing a wheelbarrow, then on stilts, and
then while carrying another man!!!)
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