L'Équipe (French for "the team") is a French nationwide newspaper devoted to sports. Its ancestor was l'Auto, originally about automobiles, which originated the Tour de France bicycle race in 1903 as a circulation booster. French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ... The French Republic or France (French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. ... Reading the newspaper: Brookgreen Gardens in Pawleys Island, South Carolina. ... A sport consists of a normal physical activity or skill carried out under a publicly agreed set of rules, and with a recreational purpose: for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of skill, or some combination of these. ... A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ... This article is about the cycle race. ...

External link

• Équipe's website (http://www.lequipe.fr)