citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . october 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message amaury sport organisation logo the amaury sport organisation aso is part of the french media group epa ditions philippe amaury . it organises sporting events including the tour de france vuelta a espa a and paris nice professional cycle road races and the dakar rally . in 2008 it began the central europe rally a rally raid endurance race in romania and hungary . 1 the tour de france was instituted by the newspaper l auto in 1903 . 2 the paper was closed after the 1939 45 war because of its links with the occupying germans and a new paper l quipe took over . l quipe now part of epa organised the tour until the race was taken over by its parent company aso . aso organises the paris marathon cycling events in africa tour du faso and the middle east tour of qatar golf the open de france lacoste ladies open de france and grand prix schweppes 3 and sailing tour de france la voile . 4 aso also organises cyclosportives events for amateur cyclists including the l tape du tour and la etapa de la vuelta . 5 the president of aso is jean etienne amaury son of epa founder philippe amaury . citation needed contents 1 professional cycling events 1.1 current 1.2 former 2 references 3 external links professional cycling events edit current edit as of 2015 update aso organises the following professional cycling events 6 arctic race of norway crit rium international crit rium du dauphin la course by le tour de france la fl che wallonne la fl che wallonne f minine la madrid challenge by la vuelta li ge bastogne li ge paris nice paris roubaix paris tours tour de l avenir tour de france tour de yorkshire tour of oman tour of qatar ladies tour of qatar vuelta a espa a world ports classic former edit tour de picardie tour of beijing references edit central europe rally 2008 2008 edition the route 1 golf in french . aso . retrieved 25 august 2012 . voile in french . aso . retrieved 25 august 2012 . preves grands public in french . aso . retrieved 25 august 2012 . cyclisme in french . aso . retrieved 25 august 2012 . external links edit official website this article about an organisation in france is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about a sports related organization is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title amaury sport organisation & oldid 708984768 categories sports organisations of francetour de francecycle racing in francedakar rallysports event promotion companiescycling organisations in francefrench organisation stubssport organization stubshidden categories cs1 french language sources fr articles needing additional references from october 2009all articles needing additional referencesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2014articles containing potentially dated statements from 2015all articles containing potentially dated statementsall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages catal cymraegdanskdeutschespa oleuskarafran aisitalianolatvie ul tzebuergeschlietuvi nederlands norsk bokm lnorsk nynorskpolskiportugu s suomi edit links this page was last modified on 8 march 2016 at 15 16 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view