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Missing things[edit]

I think this article could use a pronunciation guide, and should also contain the dates the Col opens/closes. --Ozhiker (talk) 14:54, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What does the name mean? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.18.111.99 (talk) 01:35, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"du" is not only gascon but french for the contraction of "de le", meaning of the, so it doesn't prove the gascon origin of the word. Vttloup (talk) 10:29, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Col du Galibier, Col du Télégraphe, Col du Lautaret, Col du Glandon, all in the Alps, 500km from Gascony. I deleted the claim about "du", which isn't in the cited source anyway. I also removed the claim that the suffix "-et" denotes "the". Maybe it's true, but it's unsourced and I've never seen a language that puts "the" at the end. Dricherby (talk) 09:35, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The text states there was a summit finish in 1974 but the table says it finished at Pau. Which one is correct? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kjelleirik (talk • contribs) 09:17, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do they always go the same way ?[edit]

Does the TdF always cross the pass in the same direction ?Eregli bob (talk) 14:26, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

both approaches are used, but I'm not sure if one direction is used more often than the other. This year, they'll do both! RosinDebow (talk) 01:38, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Passes before 1947[edit]

I added the first to summit the Col du Tourmalet for all years that its been used. I wasn't sure if the stages, start and finish were correct. I used past start and finishes to see if it mapped out correctly. Like Pau is used a lot as a start city for the Tourmalet crossing, so for the 1939 Tour there was only one mountain stage and Pau started it and the first person to summit it was the stage winner so I knew that was the stage where the Tourmalet was used. I got the first to summit from the French wiki of the Tourmalet. Can someone check the routes somehow to make sure that for some of the years it went from Bayonne to Luchon, and I'm pretty sure that route always went through the Tourmalet, but can someone double check for me. Thats the only thing I was shaky about.ThurstAsh13 (talk) 19:01, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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