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1989 Tour de France

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/July 28, 2019 by Jimfbleak - talk to me?  16:41, 20 June 2019 (UTC)



The 1989 Tour de France was the 76th edition of one of cycling's Grand Tours. The race began outside of France, in Luxembourg, with a prologue time trial on 1 July. It reached French soil during stage 4, ending in Paris on 23 July after 21 stages. Often cited as one of the greatest runnings of the Tour, the race was decided by only eight seconds in favour of Greg LeMond (pictured), the smallest victory margin to date. Laurent Fignon finished second overall, ahead of defending champion Pedro Delgado. Fignon performed well during the mountain stages to enter the final-day individual time trial with a 50-second advantage. LeMond utilised aerodynamic triathlon tribars to gain an advantage and managed to win the Tour on the last stage. Sean Kelly won the points classification for a record fourth time, while Gert-Jan Theunisse took the King of the Mountains prize.
 * Most recent similar article(s): I don't see any, but I believe that 1962 Tour de France can also be scheduled shortly.
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 * Promoted: March 27, 2019
 * Reasons for nomination: 30th anniversary of what is often called the greatest Tour de France of them all. July 28th would have the article appear on the final day of this year's Tour.
 * Support as nominator. Zwerg Nase (talk) 13:15, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Feel free to change the text, I know it is not quite good enough yet. Zwerg Nase (talk) 13:16, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * It's fine, but it's 888 characters, and needs to be 925-1025. You can important one of the sentences from the blurb review if you like. - Dank (push to talk) 13:58, 11 June 2019 (UTC)