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    The Tour de l'Ouest (English: Tour of the West), also known as the Circuit de I'Ouest, was a road bicycle race held annually from 1911 to 1959 in France...
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  • The Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest (CF de l'Ouest), often referred to simply as L'Ouest or Ouest, was an early French railway company which operated...
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    Empire and Commonwealth Games 1959 (2 pro wins) Tour de l'Ouest 1st Stages 4 & 5b (ITT) 1st Stage 8 Route de France 2nd Overall Essor Breton 4th Road race...
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  • Somers Stage 4 Tour de France, Maurice Archambaud Deurne, Joseph Somers Stage 19a Tour de France, Marcel Kint Stage 5 Tour de l'Ouest, Joseph Somers GP...
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  • became a professional in 1952 as a criterium rider. He nearly won the Tour de l'Ouest before giving up in the last stage. In 1955, he finished seventh in...
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    finished second in the Tour de Paris. In 1955 he won one stage of the Peace Race. Next year he won the Tour de Normandie and Tour de l'Ouest. He retired in 1960...
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    Pasquale Fornara Overall Tour de France, Roger Walkowiak Stages 4b, 9, 14 & 21, Roger Hassenforder Stage 7 Tour de l'Ouest, Gérard Saint 1957 Stage 1...
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    Romain Maes (category Tour de France winners)
    turned professional in 1933 and won the Tour de l'Ouest (Tour of the West). The following year he started the Tour de France and twice finished stages in...
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    de contestation péagère au XVe siècle: le péage de Champtocé sur Loire, d'après le procès de 1412–1414". Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l'Ouest (in...
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    Interclubs road race Tour de l'Ouest 1st Stage 3 1st Flèche Halloise 1st Aalst, Amiens, Belsele, Brasschaat, Charleroi, Cremone, De Panne, Geneve, Halle...
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    Miguel Pacheco across 3566 km in 17 stages. Source: 1959 1st Stage 5a Tour de l'Ouest 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège 4th Milan–San Remo 4th Brussels–Ingooigem...
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    Champ de Mars–Tour Eiffel station is a station on RER C in Paris named for the nearby Champ de Mars and Eiffel Tower (French: Tour Eiffel). The site has...
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    the 92nd running of the 24-hour race organised by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest. The LM GTE Am class of 2023 was transitioned to LMGT3 for the 2024 race...
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    1958 1st Stage 3b Olympia's Tour 1959 1st GP Flandria 1st Circuit du Cher 1st Stage 7 Tour de l'Ouest 2nd Overall Tour de Champagne 1st Stages 2 & 3 3rd...
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    Roger Walkowiak (category Tour de France winners)
    the Tour in 1959. 1951 3rd Tour de Dordogne 1952 2nd Tour de l'Ouest 3rd G.P de Vals-les-Bains 1953 2nd Paris-Côte d'Azur 1954 3rd Tour de l'Ouest 1955...
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    regulations were created jointly by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) as a successor to the Le Mans...
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    FIA World Endurance Championship (category Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile)
    championship organized by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The series supersedes...
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    race organised by the automotive group Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and held on the Circuit de la Sarthe race track close to the city of Le Mans, the...
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    The Catholic University of the West (French: Université catholique de l'Ouest), also known as UCO or colloquially as la Catho, is a university located...
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    Brian Robinson (cyclist) (category British Tour de France stage winners)
    Overall Tour de Luxembourg 4th Overall Tour de l'Ouest 4th Overall Tour de Picardie 8th Overall Paris–Nice 10th Bordeaux–Paris 1958 1st Stage 7 Tour de France...
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  • 1986 concert in Fréjus was originally scheduled to take place at Stade de l'Ouest in Nice. The 9 August 1986 concert in Stevenage was part of Knebworth...
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    Jacques Anquetil (category French Tour de France stage winners)
    Overall Paris–Nice 1st Stage 5 9th Critérium National de la Route 10th Overall Tour de l'Ouest 1955 1st Grand Prix des Nations 2nd Trofeo Baracchi (with...
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  • The Glass Spider Tour was a 1987 worldwide concert tour by the English musician David Bowie, launched in support of his album Never Let Me Down and named...
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    Mercedes-Benz CLR (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the FIA to eliminate the category from the series. The Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), organisers of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, chose to follow the FIA's...
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  • 8 Tour de France  France Stage race 1959–1987 29 Tour de l'Avenir  France Stage race 1982–1987 6 Tour de l'Ouest  France Stage race 1959 1 Tour de la...
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    GT cars organised by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship is considered...
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    Rik Van Steenbergen (category Belgian Tour de France stage winners)
    the 1951 Giro d'Italia. Between 1949 and 1957 he won four stages in the Tour de France and wore the yellow jersey for two days. In the same period he won...
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    through the EYSDC, also organized 2 editions of ECOWAS International Cycling tour, taking close to 100 riders from all member states, from Lagos to Accra and...
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  • editions of the Tour de France. 1951 2nd Boucles de l'Aulne 5th Overall Tour de l'Ouest 1953 1st Stages 5 & 6 Route de France 1954 1st Boucles de l'Aulne 1st...
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    Milan–San Remo 1959 Tour de l'Ouest 1st Stages 1 & 9 1st Paris–Brussels 1st Weekend Ardennais 1st Stage 3 4 Jours de Dunkerque 2nd Tour of Flanders 2nd...
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