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Sports · True or False?

The Tour de France has been held every year since 1903

The answer is False.

Explanation

It was interrupted by the two World Wars, losing 11 editions between 1915 and 1918 and between 1940 and 1946. The race was created in 1903 by the newspaper L'Auto to boost its circulation, a gambit that worked so well that sales doubled within a year.

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