No fewer than 37 teams of four competitors each (including at least one woman) have confirmed their enrollments to take part in this 1100 km race through an outstanding natural setting between Versailles and Marseille practicing horse riding, mountain biking, kayaking, caving, orienteering, rollerblading, rope climbing techniques, canyoning and hiking.

This huge, non-motorized rally will be held at the height of the summer season from July 28 to August 8 between the Tour de France and the Olympic games. This is an event guaranteed to thrill and captivate France, a country which has demonstrated a great enthusiasm for these sports every year, with recent statistics showing that more than 20 million French people enjoy nature sports.

This phenomenon has also "gone global" since the first Raid Gauloises which, just like the Raid Caneo Nature was also created by Gerard Fusil. For this first event, the French teams will also be joined by teams from Belgium, the UK and Spain.

Participation in a sporting trial of this kind is not to be taken lightly as in addition to the huge variety of knowledge and techniques which the competitors will need to master, the race must be completed entirely by non-motorized means. At certain predefined areas of the race route, two assistants may join the four team members for the changeover of activities. They will be supplying them with the equipment and food they need, but all the time the stopwatch continues ticking! In fact, over the 11 days of this race, the stopwatch only stops five times, to give the slower competitors a chance to catch up with the fastest.

The competitors are aged from 20 to 58. They all share a passion for sport but also for the natural environment, which they keenly defend. They have been preparing for the Raid CaneO Nature since mid winter and look forward to giving their very best.

The Raid CaneO Nature rally will be followed by highly skilled photographers and a top level production team which each evening from July 28 to August 8 will be sending royalty free images to the various European broadcasters. The "coverage" of the event will naturally be focusing on the sporting aspects and the most exciting highlights of the various stages but also on the personal trials and tribulations of these adventure lovers with a fondness for beauty and for the environmental and historical heritage of France.

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