A group of French members of parliament urged on Sunday that the Tour de France be added to UNESCO`s world intangible cultural heritage list. France has 17 traditions on the UNESCO list, including `Equitation` and gastronomic meals. Only China, with 40 pieces of intangible heritage, Japan, South Korea and Spain are better represented. `The Tour de France, more than a national emblem, is a global myth,` Philippe Folliot, a centrist deputy from the Tarn, wrote on the Journal de Dimanche website in a piece signed by 54 politicians. `Like what we did for the `Gastronomic meal of the French` we must protect it and carry it like a banner of our culture, our heritage, our living together, in short, what we are.` The MPs point out that the Tour, one of the world`s most popular sporting events, is `the only show of its kind in the world that is both
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