The Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) is part of the French media group, EPA (Éditions Philippe Amaury), and is well-known as the organiser of various major sporting events, including the Tour de France and Paris-Nice professional cycle road races, and the Paris-Dakar Rally. Éditions Philippe Amaury (EPA), also known as Groupe EPA or the Amaury Group, is a French media group. ... For other uses, see Tour de France (disambiguation). ... Paris-Nice, nicknamed the race to the sun, is an annual professional cycling stage race held annually each March. ... Bicycle racers at the 2005 Rund um den Henninger-Turm in Germany Road bicycle racing is a popular bicycle racing sport held on roads (following the geography of the area), using racing bicycles. ... The Paris Dakar Rally (or The Dakar) is an annual, organized, professional off-road race. ...

The Tour de France was instituted by the newspaper L'Auto in 1903. The paper was closed after the war because of its links with the occupying Germans and a new paper, L'Équipe, took over after the war. L'Équipe (now part of the EPA group) organised the Tour until the race was taken over by its parent company, ASO. ASO also organises Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, La Flèche Wallonne and Paris-Tours one-day races, andthe L'Etape du Tour cyclosportive event. LEquipe logo LÉquipe (French for the team) is a French nationwide daily newspaper devoted to sports. ... Begun in 1896, Paris-Roubaix, third of the ten UCI World Cup races, has become the most famous single-day bicycle road race. ... Liège-Bastogne-Liège, often called La Doyenne (the oldest woman), is one of the five Monuments of the European professional road cycling calendar, and the oldest. ... La Flèche Wallonne is a major professional cycle road race held in April each year in Belgium. ... Paris-Tours is a French single day classic cycling race which takes place in October towards the end of the European season. ... LEtape du Tour (French for stage of the Tour) is an organised mass participation cyclosportive event that allows amateur cyclists to race over the same route as a Tour de France stage. ... A cyclosportive is a mass-participation bicycle event that combines elements of road bicycle racing and long distance bicycle touring. ...

ASO also organises the Paris Marathon, cycling events in Africa (Tour du Faso) and the Middle East (Tour of Qatar), golf (the French Open) and equestrian events. The Paris Marathon is an annual marathon foot-race which takes place from the Champs Elysées heading towards the Place de la Concorde and continuing through the city to finish at Foch Avenue. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... The Tour du Faso is a 10 day road bicycle racing stage race held in Burkina Faso in the late fall. ... The Tour of Qatar is a road cycling race held in Qatar and is part of the UCI Asia Tour. ... This article is about the sport. ... The Open de France is a PGA European Tour golf tournament. ... A young rider at a horse show in Australia. ...

The president of ASO is Patrice Clerc. This biographical article related to cycling is a stub. ...

External links

• English version of ASO website