Audax Club Paris

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The Audax Club parisien (ACP) is a French cycling club founded in Paris in 1904 . The club organizes long-distance cycling trips in France and manages randonneur events around the world. The most famous event of the club is the Paris – Brest – Paris long-distance journey , which is held every four years.

history

In April 1904, Henri Desgrange , editor of the French daily sports newspaper L'Auto , organized a long-distance bike ride of 200 kilometers from Paris to Gaillon and back. The route had to be mastered at an average speed of 18 kilometers per hour by the drivers who were traveling in closed groups with “captains”.

Desgrange had the idea for this long-distance cycle tour through a similar event in Italy . The organizers there called it “ Audax ” - from the Latin for “bold”, “daring” - and Desgrange adopted this name.

The event went well and the participants and other cyclists founded the Audax Club parisien on November 30, 1904 as a non-profit organization with the aim of promoting the development of long-distance cycling. The seat was in the Café du Vaudeville , 29 rue Vivienne, in Paris. The founding of the association was made public on December 28, 1904 in the Journal of the French Republic.

In 1906, the ACP delegated the task of organizing certification trips to Desgrange . However, there were differences between the association and Desgrange, so that Desgrange took over the Audax movement. One reason for the dispute was that the ACP organized the Polymultipliée de Chanteloup in collaboration with L'Echo des Sports , a rival magazine to L'Auto . Another point of contention was the fact that the Audax captains allegedly disregarded the average speed of 18 kilometers per hour according to the rules. The result was that the captains founded their own club, the Union of the Audax Club parisiens . The riders who did not like the ride within a given time founded a new form of cycling, the Brevet de Randonneur Français .

Two years later, the ACP became a member of the Francs Routiers , the Cycle Excursionniste Parisien , the Touriste Club Parisien and the Tandémistes Parisiens , which together form the Fédération Française des Sociétés de Cyclotourisme , from 1942 the Fédération Française de Cyclotourisme . Its first president was Gaston Cément, the president of the ACP.

In 1921 the ACP organized the first Brevet de Randonneur à Allure Libre , whereby allure libre means that drivers can determine their own speed, but must be faster than 14 km / h. From 1976 the ACP represented the randonneurs of Europe, and since 1983 the name has been Brevet Randonneurs Mondiaux .

run

Paris – Brest – Paris was initially a race for professionals . In 1931, when the race was held for the fifth time, the ACP President Durand had a brevet race over 1200 kilometers for the first time. The minimum time was set at 60 hours and the maximum time was set at 96 hours. There were 62 participants, 44 of whom finished. Because of the Second World War , the second edition did not take place until 1948, then every five years, and since 1975 every four years. By 2007, 22,446 athletes had finished the race. The proportion of non-French people rose steadily, and in 1991, 2003 and 2007 there were more foreigners than French at the start.

The Flèche Vélocio was held for the first time in 1947 in honor of Paul de Vivie , a pioneer of cycling who advocated gear shifting on bicycles. At the first event there was only one team at the start. Teams of three to five drivers start at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and drive to the respective location in Provence where the annual, traditional Easter meeting of Pâques en Provence takes place. The Flèche includes a journey of 360 kilometers within 24 hours.

With the Flèchett Vélocio there has been a junior edition of the Flèche Vélocio since 1988 . It's a 12-hour drive with no more than an hour of darkness, and the goal is the Easter meeting. The distance is between 150 and 350 kilometers. The teams consist of five drivers between the ages of 14 and 18 plus an adult who has already participated in the Flèche Vélocio .

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  1. ↑ Audax Randonneurs Allemagne (ARA) - long-distance cycling in Germany. Audax Randonneurs Allemagne, accessed May 18, 2014 .