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The Tour de France, the greatest cycling race of them all, gets properly underway today with live coverage from Sky and ITV in the UK and Versus in the U.S. For sports buffs and French language learners the Tour is a great opportunity to learn some cycling lingo. With a little effort Sheldon Brown's Vélo Dictionnaire Français/Anglais web page could help make you a 'maillot jaune' of French bike vocabulary in time for the final stage on the Champs-Elysées!