Sentence examples for successive tours from inspiring English sources

Successive tours sold well.

England have grown in stature against spin bowling on three successive tours of the sub-continent.

Armstrong mused about Miguel Indurain of Spain, who was in the process of winning the third of five successive Tours.

The Armstrong saga, when the American who won seven successive Tours from 1999 to 2005 was found to have doped in August 2012, was a major low for cycling, which has long been marred by the spectre of drugs.

Jacques Anquetil of France won the Tour in 1957 and then won four in a row between 1961 and 1964; Eddie Merckx of Belgium won four successive Tours between 1969 and 1972 and a fifth in 1974; and Miguel Indurain of Spain won five straight Tours between 1991 and 1995.

Spain's Miguel Indurain is the only man to win five successive Tours, which he completed in 1995.

The feel-good factor from Britain's cycling successes at London 2012, coupled with Sir Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome winning successive Tour de France titles, has helped make it the stand-out performer, increasing participation by 137,000 from April to October 2013.

Smalling admits the team should not be immune from criticism despite recording their second successive tour win.

Armstrong has won the Tour four straight times, and if he wins this year, he will equal the record for overall and successive Tour victories.

Of the five atop the standing, only Voeckler can be considered dangerous to Armstrong's hopes of winning a sixth successive Tour.

Ullrich, the German leader of the Telekom team, is generally considered Armstrong's biggest obstacle to a third successive Tour victory.