Question: What is the objective of tour de france?

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question: What is the current objective of tour de france?
short_answers: to win the world’s most prestigious and most difficult bicycle race
multiple stage bicycle race
bicycle race
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question: What was the original objective of tour de france?|What was the objective of tour de france in 1903?
short_answers: to increase sales for the newspaper L'Auto
increase sales for the newspaper L'Auto

Answer: The current objective of the Tour de France is to win the world’s most prestigious and most difficult bicycle race, but the original objective when it was first organized in 1903 was to increase sales for the newspaper L'Auto, who originated the Tour de France cycling stage race in 1903 as a circulation booster.