Istanbul, Monday 18 April 2016 – How many sports events race around one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? How many can claim to visit tlandscapes mentioned in Homer’s Iliad? Or a city said to have been founded after the Trojan War by the seers Mopsos, Calchas and Amphilochus? How many meander across the river from which the word ‘meander’ derives, or race through the birthplace of the philosopher who wrote, ‘No man ever steps in the same river twice’? How many bike races pass the world’s best preserved ancient amphitheatre?