text:  It's more than just a bike race. When the Tour de France takes place every year, there is a visit by the president of La République. Were any topics off limits? I think the one thing that they didn't really want to talk about, actually, was the Lance Armstrong years. I know that that's something that they're very sore about because, in fact, when you look now at the history of the Tour de France, then there's no winner there.