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The 100th Edition Of The Tour de France: Chirps, Opinions, News, Updates.


Pick the yellow and green jersey winners.  

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  1. 1. Who will reign in Yellow?

    • Froome Dawg (Sky)
      216
    • Contador (Saxo Tinkoff)
      53
    • A Schleck, Radioshack
      13
    • Evans (BMC)
      8
    • Uran (Sky)
      0
    • Tejay (BMC)
      3
    • Gesink (Blanco)
      0
    • Hesjedal (Garmin Sharp
      0
    • Valverde (Movistar)
      4
    • J Rodriquez (Katusha)
      2
    • Suprize package!
      6
  2. 2. Who will reign in Green?

    • Sagan (Cannondale Pro Cycling)
      178
    • Cav' (Omega Pharma Quickstep)
      104
    • Greipel (Lotto Bellisol)
      7
    • Bouhanni (FDJ)
      1
    • Goss (Orica-Greenedge)
      3
    • Surprize package?
      12


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Final Movistar line up:

 

- Alejandro Valverde,

- Rui Costa,

- Nairo Quintana,

- Andrey Amador,

- Jonathan Castroviejo,

- Rubén Plaza,

- Imanol Erviti,

- Iván Gutiérrez

- José Joaquín Rojas.

 

Strong line up with Costa coming off the tour of Swiss win and Quintana free from leadership. Hopefully there will be a couple of stage with the guys in that line up.

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Final Movistar line up:

 

- Alejandro Valverde,

- Rui Costa,

- Nairo Quintana,

- Andrey Amador,

- Jonathan Castroviejo,

- Rubén Plaza,

- Imanol Erviti,

- Iván Gutiérrez

- José Joaquín Rojas.

 

Strong line up with Costa coming off the tour of Swiss win and Quintana free from leadership. Hopefully there will be a couple of stage with the guys in that line up.

 

Watch out, Skyborgs!

Posted

Final Movistar line up:

 

- Alejandro Valverde,

- Rui Costa,

- Nairo Quintana,

- Andrey Amador,

- Jonathan Castroviejo,

- Rubén Plaza,

- Imanol Erviti,

- Iván Gutiérrez

- José Joaquín Rojas.

 

Strong line up with Costa coming off the tour of Swiss win and Quintana free from leadership. Hopefully there will be a couple of stage with the guys in that line up.

 

Hmm, yeah, tough lot that, all d**n good riders in their own rights, no fence sitters here.

Posted (edited)

Hell, even if he does not win the Green Jersey, he has in my opinion just for that !!

 

I would like to see more roadies park like that :)

 

This'll show you what roadies are capable of... Sagan's got nothing. ;)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZmJtYaUTa0

 

Yeah, it's been around a while but it's still awesome.

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Just how big is the 100th Tour de France, which kicks off Saturday, June 29 on the island of Corsica? Organizer ASO distributed these numbers on Monday.

 

 

Participants

 

4,500 among organization, teams, media, partners, publicity caravan, service providers

Riders

198 riders at the start (22 teams of 9 riders)

300 support personnel

17 members on the stewards’ committee

 

Route in 2013

3,404 kilometers (21 stages)

36 stage towns

537 French municipalities crossed

37 French departments visited

 

Organization

100 permanent staff of A.S.O.

280 temporary staff

1,450 beds reserved every day for the organizers and teams

 

Medical Service

10 emergency doctors, 1 anaesthetics nurse

6 ambulances, 2 medical cars, 1 motorcycle, 1 X-ray truck

 

Security

47 police motorcyclists

13 police officers (permanent police mission for the Tour)

23,000 officers from the various police divisions mobilized

1,000 General Council agents

 

Media (2012 edition)

2,000 journalists, consultants, photographers

560 different media outlets covering the race

350 newspapers/magazines, press agencies, or websites

85 TV channels, of which 60 broadcast live

75 photo agencies

50 radio stations

 

TV broadcasting

Broadcasts to 190 countries

Around 100 channels, 60 of them broadcasting live

New national stations broadcasting live in 2013: Estonia (ETV), Israel (Sport5), Kazakhstan (KAZsport)

New regional broadcaster (Middle East and North Africa): Aljazeera Sport (23 countries)

9 stages broadcast in full

86 hours of live footage (international signal)

Over 5,000 hours of programs worldwide

3.5 billion viewers worldwide (2012)

 

Internet (2012 edition)

11.5 million unique visitor hits (in July)

133 million pages viewed (in July)

4 languages: French, German, Spanish, English (the most visited version)

925,000 fans on Facebook

150,000 followers on Twitter

800,000 apps on the Tour de France downloaded

 

Partners

44 partner brands including 4 new partners

4 Club Partners

9 Official Partners

6 Institutional and Environmental Partners

2 Media Partners

14 Official Suppliers

6 Technical Partners

7 Official Sponsors

 

Publicity Caravan

180 vehicles

37 brands

600 people

14.5 million gifts handed out

12 kilometers of precession

35 minutes of show-time

54 people involved in supervision, including 13 police officers

 

Spectators lining the route (2012 edition)

12 million spectators

68% men and 32% women

53% under 50 years of age, of which 12% were under 25

80% French spectators and 20% foreign spectators

38 different nationalities counted

6:50 of presence at the road-side (6 hours for flat stages, 8:50 for mountain stages)

92% of people come with family or friends (in groups of 4 to 5 people on average)

Posted

The last really good toe-to-toe we've witnessed. Really hope we get to see some more this year round.

 

PS. Just wetting my appetite bored stiff at work :ph34r:

Yes was wondering if it is not too much of one horse race, this race will be more exciting with 5-10 guys really able to go for win.
Posted

Froomes bio removed from bikepure site due to reluctance to provide SRM & other data

 

http://bikepure.org/...our-contenders/

 

Not so sure I agree that is a good idea.

 

Maybe releasing data after the Tour yes, but then you still have next year’s Tour to come and everyone will pretty much know what (say Froome’) numbers are.

With the way Sky is operating, they must have a fairly good idea where Berto is at the moment and also what his maximum possible numbers are and they will use it. But I’m hoping the guess work they have to do (by not knowing exactly where his at) will somehow unsettle them at some point.

 

This of course is where doping has been so good for the exciting nature of the sport. You never quite know how much Armstrong doped on any particular day, so the competition never knew exactly what he was capable of. Last year’s Tour was one of the most boring in recent memory for a number of reasons. To see in a few days what the absence of the dope will mean for the excitement.

Posted

You never quite know how much Armstrong doped on any particular day, so the competition never knew exactly what he was capable of.

A lot.

 

In 1999 all but one of his samples tested positive for EPO once a test was developed compared to 8% of all other samples taken at the tour. Including samples from Pantani and Zülle.

Posted (edited)

I read somewhere that Europcar was also in a bit of hot water over with the Council for Credible sport. Seems they are been investigated over transfusions and Rolands issue with elevated Cortisol levels.

 

I'll see if I can find the article. .........okay found em.........

 

Heres one - http://velonews.comp...and-test_291545

 

Heres the other - http://velonews.comp...e-france_226076

Edited by GrumpyOldGuy
Posted

Cunego to be nr 1

 

Lampre-Merida for the Tour de France

Matteo Bono (ITA)

Davide Cimolai (ITA)

Damiano Cunego (ITA)

Elia Favilli (ITA)

Roberto Ferrari (ITA)

Adriano Malori (ITA)

Manuele Mori (ITA)

Przemyslaw Niemiec (POL)

Jose Serpa (COL)

 

Posted

Cunego to be nr 1

 

Lampre-Merida for the Tour de France

Matteo Bono (ITA)

Davide Cimolai (ITA)

Damiano Cunego (ITA)

Elia Favilli (ITA)

Roberto Ferrari (ITA)

Adriano Malori (ITA)

Manuele Mori (ITA)

Przemyslaw Niemiec (POL)

Jose Serpa (COL)

They'll miss Scarpo

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