• Hors catégorie (HC) is a French term used in stage bicycle races to designate a climb that is "beyond categorization". The term was originally used for...
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    points are doubled on some hors catégorie (also 1st category in 2018) chosen by the organizers: in 2017, hors catégorie also stage finish (only one case) ;...
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  • the Col du Galibier (Hors Catégorie), Col de la Croix de Fer (Hors Catégorie), and the final climb to Alpe d'Huez (Hors Catégorie). In the COVID-19 aftermath...
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    second-, and first-category and hors catégorie, with the more difficult climbs rated lower. Mountains ranked hors catégorie gave 20 points to the first rider...
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    clinches to the wheel's rim. Berm A banked turn. Beyond category See Hors catégorie. Bidon (French) A water bottle. Bike throw A bike throw occurs in the...
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    some of it up to a 13.5% grade—more than one and a half times the Hors catégorie in the Tour de France. Amane Beriso Shankule took the lead there, followed...
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    Colombier, in the Alps, was included for the first time, and was among six hors catégorie (English: beyond category) rated climbs in the race. The highest point...
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  • pages with titles containing Hors (disambiguation) Hors catégorie, a term in bicycle racing Horse (disambiguation) Hor (disambiguation) Khors (disambiguation)...
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  • h.c., a notation used in mathematics and quantum physics Head Coach Hors catégorie (French), used in cycle races to designate a climb that is "beyond categorization"...
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    classification contenders at 10 km (6.2 mi) before the finish atop the hors catégorie Col du Tourmalet. With 1 km (0.62 mi) remaining, Thomas got detached...
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    the famous hors catégorie Col du Tourmalet at 124 km and finally a hors catégorie finish at Luz Ardiden. These were the last hors catégorie climbs on the...
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    Tour. These sections are considered to be similar in difficulty to hors catégorie climbs in the Tour de France. The Transfăgărășan was featured in a segment...
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    stage of the 2013 Critérium du Dauphiné. The climb was classified as hors catégorie. The stage victory went to Christopher Froome, who beat Alberto Contador...
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    the race covers. The scale ranges from category 4, the easiest, to hors catégorie, the hardest. During his career Richard Virenque won the mountains classification...
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    740 ft)-high Col d'Izoard mountain pass on stage fourteen. It was among six hors catégorie (English: beyond category) rated climbs in the race. There were nine...
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  • Beethoven 250th anniversary] Spirits (2023). Stanislav Soloviev. DG "Hors Categorie". September 2018. "For the Record, Op. 234: Daniel Lozakovich; Ragazze...
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    difficult) based on their steepness and length. A fifth category, called Hors catégorie (outside category) applies to mountains rated even more severe than...
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    climbed four times as a 1st category climb, and one time, in 2009, as a hors catégorie climb. The snow in the pass in winter may be as much as 10 metres deep...
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    Décember 2011 : "Corner" de Gato Da Bato Featuring Booba Décember 2011 : "Hors Catégorie" - Niro Décember 2011 : "Vaisseau Mère" - Booba November 2011 : "Gingerwine"...
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    first-category and hors catégorie, with the more difficult climbs rated lower. The first rider to cross the summit of an hors catégorie climb was given 40...
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    (Independent hors catégorie) 2nd Grand Prix de France 5th Mont Faron hill climb 7th Grand Prix des Nations 1966 (Independent hors catégorie) 1st Vuelta...
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    ascended the Hors catégorie Col d'Izoard to 2,361 m (7,746 ft) and descended through Cervières to Briançon. The final ascent was the Hors catégorie climb of...
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  • Saint-Martin-d'Hères before a short climb to Uriage-les-Bains. The first Hors catégorie climb of the tour then began, with a 20.5 km (13 mi) ascent to the finish...
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    de la Bonette Alps France pass Jausiers and Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée Hors catégorie climb in the Tour de France. 44°19′36″N 6°48′27″E / 44.326685°N 6...
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    second-, first-category and hors catégorie, with the more difficult climbs rated lower. In the 2010 Tour, any hors catégorie, first-, or second-category...
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    climb is not as long as, but considerably steeper than, any of the hors catégorie climbs featured in the Tour de France. The Mount Baw Baw Classic, which...
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    Georgia, a long-distance bicycle race, Brasstown Bald was the site of an hors categorie "King of the Mountains stage" finish. NOAA Weather Radio station KXI22...
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    at the summit and three at La Mongie. Since 1980 it has been ranked hors catégorie, or exceptional. The Vuelta a España has also crossed the pass several...
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    Cape, South Africa. First staged in 2004, it has been accredited as hors catégorie (beyond categorization) by the Union Cycliste Internationale. The eight...
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  • the world and the only eight-day mountain bike stage race classed as hors catégorie by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). An open-air concert by Andrea...
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