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  1. Tour de France: 10 Wacky Rules of the Greatest Cycling Race in the

    The UCI penalizes riders who feed in the first 30 km and last 20 km of stage races, including the Tour de France. Those caught feeding in the first stretch face about a $200 fine. Those caught in ...

  2. Tour de France

    Tour de France - The Rules Explained. By WeLoveCycling June 30, 2017 at 1:13 pm. Some teams will focus on the general classification Yellow Jersey, whereas others will focus on winning sprints for The Green or the King of the Mountains Spotted Jersey. There are many rules, both spoken and unspoken, as teams stand to gain a lot from ...

  3. Complete Guide to Understanding the 2023 Tour de France

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  4. Tour de France Explained: How You Win & How It Really Works

    How The Tour de France Works The Tour de France: Infographic. What is the Tour de France. The Tour de France is the world's most prestigious bike race which has been running for over 100 years. The Tour takes riders all across France, through the Alps and the Pyranees, and finishes in Paris. This year it will take place: July 1 - July 23, 2023

  5. A Beginner's Guide to the Tour de France

    The Tour de France is what's known as a 'stage race', which is a collection of smaller races - or stages - ridden consecutively across a set period of time. In the case of the Tour, this time period encompasses three weeks, or 21 days (23 if we include the two rest days where there's no racing). There are only two other stage races on ...

  6. Tour de France Rules Explained

    Article 20 states: "In the event that a rider or riders suffer a fall, puncture or mechanical incident in the last 3 kilometers and such an incident is duly recognized, the rider or riders ...

  7. 14 Tour de France rules you probably didn't know

    Under article 21, any prize-winner who refuses to take part in the official proceedings at the start and the finish in his race outfit will be penalised. 14. Splits in the bunch. All riders in a ...

  8. Tour de France 101: Beginner's Guide

    VeloNews' Tour de France 101 guide will help you identify top riders and understand the commentators because let's face it, cycling is a world and language of its own. Part one: Recognizing the riders. Here's a list of the top riders at the Tour de France, and what to look for in their riding styles to identify each when watching the race.

  9. Tour de France beginner's guide: Discover all the info

    2019 Tour de France race route. Starting in Brussels on July 6, it winds its way 3,480km around the country in 21 stages, which breaks down into 7 flat stages, 5 hilly stages, 7 mountain stages, 1 ...

  10. A beginner's guide to the Tour de France

    The overall Tour de France champion is awarded the final maillot jaune in Paris. Britain's Chris Froome, who rides for Team Sky, claimed the yellow jersey last year, beating Colombia's Nairo ...

  11. Tour de France

    The Tour de France (French pronunciation: [tuʁ də fʁɑ̃s]; English: Tour of France) is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race held primarily in France. It is the oldest of the three Grand Tours (the Tour, the Giro d'Italia, and the Vuelta a España) and is generally considered the most prestigious.. The race was first organized in 1903 to increase sales for the newspaper L'Auto and ...

  12. Understanding the Tour de France and the Strategies

    Tour De France For Dummies. Condensed to its basic premise, the Tour de France is a simple athletic contest: The cyclist who completes a strenuous and often perilous course of more than 2,000 miles in the lowest total time wins. Yet, the event is so much more. Steeped in history, tradition, and racing lore, the Tour defines endurance and global ...

  13. Rules of the Tour de France

    Tour de France Rules. Here are some general rules that are part of the Tour de France. Slipstreaming and other team tactics were initially strongly condemned by the original tour director Desgrange, and he only accepted their inevitability during the 1920s. Nowadays, in ordinary stages, the riders are allowed to shelter behind each other in the ...

  14. The Tour de France: a guide to the basics

    The race and its various stages. The Tour goes on for three weeks, during which the riders cover about 3,500km in a rough circuit of the country. It is divided into 21 days of racing, with each ...

  15. 14 Tour de France rules you probably didn't know

    Egan Bernal on stage 21 of the Tour de France 2019 (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)The world's biggest bike race has a comprehensive set of rules ... 14 Tour de France rules you probably didn't know. Cycling Weekly. CycleFans Publisher. Friday, 28 August 2020 .

  16. Top 10 Rules Of The Tour De France

    Top 10 Rules Of The Tour De France. 00:00, Thursday 23rd July 2015. Share. The Tour de France is full of quirky protocols, both written and unwritten. Here are our 10 favourites. Click ... #France #Racing #Tour de France. More GCN videos. Link to 5 Tips for Building Endurance ...

  17. Tour de France Guide (rules)

    1st category passes: 10-8-6-4-2-1 points; 2nd category passes or hills: 5-3-2-1 points; 3rd category passes or hills: 2-1 points; 4th category hills: 1 point. Summits that lie within the second half of a stage, and that are over 2,000 metres, earn double the points for the mountains classification. In addition to points for the mountains ...

  18. What's going on at the Tour De France? The races within the race

    The white (young rider's) jersey. Any rider under the age of 25 is considered a young rider in the Tour de France and there is a competition just for the kids. This is traditionally a competition that is won by an up and coming GC rider, but the rise of the likes of Pogacar and Bernal means that the white jersey has been taken by the winner of ...

  19. How do time cuts work in the Tour de France?

    The Tour de France is arguably one of the toughest challenges in elite sport - three weeks in the saddle, riding 5-6 hours a day, ... The rules outline this power, as follows: "The commissaires ...

  20. At Tour de France, Rules of the Road Are Often Unspoken

    The unwritten rules of the Tour de France once included a ban on launching attacks in tunnels. Christophe Ena/Associated Press. To police these rules, spoken and not, it falls to the dominant ...

  21. The unwritten rules of the Tour de France

    20 years ago this July, on the final climb of the final mountain stage of the 2003 Tour de France, Jan Ullrich finally looked capable of defeating his old adversary, Lance Armstrong. For arguably the only time during his seven-year-reign, the disgraced Texan appeared out-of-sorts at the Tour. ... Café wisdom: road.cc readers on unwritten rules ...

  22. Tour de France 2021: BBC Sport profiles all 21 stages

    Britain's Mark Cavendish rolls back the years to win his first Tour de France stage since 2016. The 36-year-old moves within three wins of Eddy Merckx's all-time record of 34 at the race.

  23. Tour de France Guide (tips)

    Protecting yourself from the wind. The coloured trail that is visible around the speedometer is an indicator of drag. The more that trail is visible, the greater the air resistance to the forward motion of your rider, and the faster he tires. Conversely, if the trail is hardly visible, it means that your rider is well protected and is not ...