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2024 AlUla Tour
The 2024 AlUla Tour was a road cycling stage race that took place between 30 January and 3 February 2024 in Saudi Arabia. The race was rated as a category 2.1 event on the 2024 UCI Asia Tour calendar and was the eighth edition of the Saudi Tour. Teams Eighteen teams entered the race, which included nine UCI WorldTeams, five UCI ProTeams, three UCI Continental teams and the Saudi Arabian National Team. All teams entered a full squad of seven riders, with the exception of , who only entered five. In total, 111 riders started the race. UCI WorldTeams * * * * * * * * * UCI ProTeams * * * * * UCI Continental Teams * * * National team * Saudi Arabia Route Stages Stage 1 ;30 January 2024 — Al Manshiyah Train Station to Al Manshiyah Train Station, Stage 2 ;31 January 2024 — Winter Park to Sharaan Natural Reserve, Stage 3 ;1 February 2024 — AlUla International Airport to Camel Cup Track, Stage 4 ;2 February 2024 — Hegra to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 UCI Asia Tour
The 2024 UCI Asia Tour was the 20th season of the UCI Asia Tour. The season began on 22 October 2023 with the Hong Kong Cyclothon in Hong Kong and ended on 14 October 2024. The points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wore the UCI Asia Tour cycling jersey. Throughout the season, points were awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determined how many points were awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points were awarded. The UCI race classifications from highest to lowest are as follows: * Multi-day events: 2.1 and 2.2 * One-day events: 1.1 and 1.2 Events References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:2023 UCI Asia Tour 2024 UCI Asia Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Future Plc
Future plc is a British publishing company. It was started in 1985 by Chris Anderson (entrepreneur), Chris Anderson. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History 1985–2012 The company was founded by Chris Anderson (entrepreneur), Chris Anderson as Future Publishing in Somerton, Somerset, England, with the sole magazine ''Amstrad Action'' in 1985. An early innovation was the inclusion of free software on magazine covers. It acquired GP Publications and established what would become Future US in 1994. Anderson sold the company to Pearson plc for £52.7m in 1994, but bought it back in 1998, for £142 million. The company was Initial public offering, floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1999. Anderson left the company in 2001. In 2004, the company was accused of corruption when it published positive reviews for the video game ''Driver 3'' in two of its owned magazines, ''Xbox World'' and ''PSM3, PSM2''. 2012–2015 Futu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyclingnews
Cyclingnews.com is a website providing coverage of cycle racing—including road, track, mountain bike, cyclocross and gravel—as well as bike-related reviews and buying advice. Since 2019, the site is owned by British publishing company Future. The site has been called "the world leader in cycling sport coverage" by industry publication ''Bicycle Retailer''. History In 1995 Australian Bill Mitchell, a keen cyclist and professor of economics at the University of Newcastle, created the website titled "Bill’s Cycling Racing Results and News" after finding there was a need for fast-breaking news and race results in English-speaking countries. In 1999 Sydney-based publishing company Knapp Communications purchased the website from Mitchell, and in July 2007 they sold it to British publisher Future plc for £2.2m. In July 2014 it was bought by Immediate Media Company, with sister website BikeRadar and sister magazines '' Cycling Plus'', '' Mountain Biking UK'', and '' Procycling' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Town, Al-'Ula
The Old Town is an archaeological site near al-‘Ulā, Medina Province, Saudi Arabia. It is known as ''al-Dirah'' (). Inside al-Dīrah are ancient heritage buildings, mosques(masjid), and markets, dating back about seven centuries, currently under restoration development. This town is away from Hegra HEGRA, which stands for High-Energy-Gamma-Ray Astronomy, was an atmospheric Cherenkov effect, Cherenkov telescope for Gamma-ray astronomy. With its various types of detectors, HEGRA took data between 1987 and 2002, at which point it was dismantl .... The heritage town looks like a single building due to the crowding of its 870 residential units. These units are separated by narrow and winding alleys. The town is divided into two districts: al-Shqīq in the north and al-Ḥilf in the south.Battesti, V., & Marty, L. (2023). Bedouins and Sedentaries today in al-‘Ulâ (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia): Al-diyâr and al-Dîra in the rear-view mirror. Arabian Humanities, 17. https://doi.org ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stage 5
The Walnut Valley Festival is an acoustic music festival held annually in the small city of Winfield, Kansas, United States. The main genre of music is bluegrass, but a wide variety of other acoustic styles are represented. The festival is held on the Wednesday through Sunday that includes the third Saturday of September. History The first official "Walnut Valley Festival" was held in September 1972 and was organized by a trio of founders-- Stuart Mossman, Joe Muret, & Bob Redford. The festival featured a two-day flat-picking contest."Winfield: The Walnut Valley Mystique" ''NPR'', October 6, 2009. In 1999 the |
Al-%27Ula
al-Ula (), officially AlUla, is an ancient Arabian oasis city and governorate located in Medina Province, Saudi Arabia, northwest of the city of Medina. Situated in the Hejaz, a region that features prominently in the history of Islam as well as several pre-Islamic Semitic civilizations, al-Ula was a market city on the historic Incense trade route that linked India and the Persian Gulf to the Levant and Europe. From an archaeological perspective, the immediate vicinity contains a unique concentration of precious artifacts, including well-preserved ancient stone inscriptions that illustrate the development of the Arabic language, and a concentration of rock dwellings and tombs that date from the Nabatean and Dedanite periods that coincided with Greco-Roman influence during classical antiquity. Saudi Arabia's first UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hegra (also known as al-Hijr, or Mada'in Ṣalih), is located north of the city, in al-Ula governorate. Built more than 2,000 years a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hegra (Mada'in Salih)
HEGRA, which stands for High-Energy-Gamma-Ray Astronomy, was an atmospheric Cherenkov telescope for Gamma-ray astronomy. With its various types of detectors, HEGRA took data between 1987 and 2002, at which point it was dismantled in order to build its successor, MAGIC, at the same site. It was located at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma at a height of 2200 m above sea level. It was operated by an international collaboration of research institutes and universities, such as the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the German Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, the University of Wuppertal, the IFKKI in Kiel or the University of Hamburg. It consisted of several detector types for observing secondary particles from particle cascades in the atmosphere. The particle cascades detected by HEGRA were produced by cosmic ray particles in the energy range of 1012eV to 1016eV. The detectors with the lowest energy threshold we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stage 4
Stage 4 may refer to: * Key Stage 4 * ''Stage 4'' of ''Everywhere at the End of Time'' * Cambrian Stage 4 Cambrian Stage 4 is the still unnamed fourth stage of the Cambrian and the upper stage of Cambrian Series 2. It follows Cambrian Stage 3 and lies below the Wuliuan. The lower boundary has not been formally defined by the International Commission o ... * Stage 4 cancer * Stage 4 CKD * Dual-Stage 4-Grid * Stage 4 of Braak staging * Decomposition stage 4 * Whale fall stage 4 * 2019–20 Biathlon World Cup – Stage 4 * 2021 Call of Duty League season stage 4 See also * Piaget's 4 stages of cognitive development {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alula Airport
Alula Airport is an airport serving Aluula (Alula, Caluula), a Gulf of Aden coastal town in the Bari region of northeastern Somalia. The runway is inland, paralleling the shore. See also * Transport in Somalia *List of airports in Somalia This is a list of airports in Somalia, sorted by location. As of 2012, Somalia has 62 airports, 7 of these have paved runways. Among the latter, four have runways of over 3,047 m; two between 2,438 m and 3,047 m; and one 1,524 m to 2,437 m long. ... References External linksOurAirports - Alula* * Airports in Somalia Puntland {{Somalia-airport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stage 3
Stage, stages, or staging may refer to: Arts and media Acting * Stage (theatre), a space for the performance of theatrical productions * Theatre, a branch of the performing arts, often referred to as "the stage" * ''The Stage'', a weekly British theatre newspaper * Stages Repertory Theatre, a theatre company in Houston, Texas Music Performers * Stage, an American band featuring Ryan Star Albums * ''Stage'' (David Bowie album), 1978 * ''Stage'' (Great White album), 1995 * ''Stage'' (Keller Williams album), 2004 * ''Stage'', by Mónica Naranjo, 2009 * ''The Stage'' (album), by Avenged Sevenfold, or the title song (see below), 2016 * ''Stages'' (Cassadee Pope album), 2019 * ''Stages'' (Elaine Paige album), 1983 * ''Stages'' (Eric Clapton album), 1993 * ''Stages'' (Jimi Hendrix album), 1991 * ''Stages'' (Josh Groban album), 2015 * ''Stages'' (Melanie C album), 2012 * ''Stages'' (Triumph album), 1985 * ''Stages'' (Vedera album), 2009 * '' Stages: The Lost Album'', b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Søren Wærenskjold
Søren Wærenskjold (born 12 March 2000) is a Norwegian cyclist, who rides for UCI ProTeam . Major results Road ;2017 : 1st Overall Internationale Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt ::1st Points classification ::1st Young rider classification : National Junior Championships ::2nd Time trial ::3rd Road race : 4th Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland ::1st Stage 4 : 10th Overall Trofeo Karlsberg ::1st Young rider classification : 10th Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan ;2018 : 1st Time trial, National Junior Championships : 1st Overall Saarland Trofeo ::1st Stage 3a : 2nd Gent–Wevelgem Juniors : 3rd Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan ::1st Stage 2a ( ITT) : 5th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships ;2019 : 5th Youngster Coast Challenge : 6th Ringerike GP ;2020 : 1st Overall International Tour of Rhodes ::1st Young rider classification ::1st Stages 1 & 3 : 3rd Time trial, National Championships ;2021 : Tour de l'Avenir ::1st Prologue & Stage 1 : 1st Prologue Grand Prix Priessn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
