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- proper noun A city in southern
France which is in the prefecture of the Hautes-Pyrénées département.It is the second largest city in theMidi-Pyrénées Region, afterToulouse .
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Examples
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And Tarbes is where the stage started the morning after Lance Armstrong's teammate Fabio Casartelli had been killed.
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The next two stages through the Pyrenees don't have mountaintop finishes, there's a long distance between the climbs and the finish, but Stage 9 is familiar ground, because it goes over the Col de Tourmalet and finishes in Tarbes.
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"It's pure happiness," Fedrigo said after speeding out ahead of Pellizotti following the final turn in Tarbes.
Fedrigo wins Tour's ninth stage; Armstrong still in third 2009
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For many centuries of eventful history it has consisted principally of one very long street, running east and west over so wide a stretch of territory that the town was called Tarbes-the-Long.
Foch the Man Laughlin, Clara E 1918
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This encounter took place on a plain a little to the south of Tarbes which is still called the Heath of the Moors.
Foch the Man Laughlin, Clara E 1918
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Pierrick Fedrigo beat Franco Pellizotti by less than one bike length to take Stage 9 of the Tour de France between Saint Gaudens and Tarbes.
Fedrigo wins Tour's ninth stage; Armstrong still in third 2009
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Fedrigo, a 30-year-old rider who won a Tour stage in 2006, came out on top of a two-man battle with Italy's Franco Pellizotti in the 160. 5-kilometer (99. 7-mile) trek from Saint-Gaudens to Tarbes.
Fedrigo wins Tour's ninth stage; Armstrong still in third 2009
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Riders face a third and final day in the Pyrenees on Sunday, a 160. 5-kilometer (100-mile) course from Saint-Gaudens to Tarbes via the famed Tourmalet Pass, one of the toughest climbs in pro cycling.
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So Lance will definitely be thinking about that when he races into Tarbes.
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Results Sunday from the ninth stage of the Tour de France, a 99.7 mile ride from Saint-Gaudens to Tarbes
Fedrigo wins Tour's ninth stage; Armstrong still in third 2009
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