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List of Tour de France general classification winners. Miguel Indurain, winner of five consecutive GC Tour titles from 1991 to 1995. The Tour de France is an annual road bicycle race held over 23 days in July. Established in 1903 by newspaper L'Auto, the Tour is the best-known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others ...
Released on 8 June 2023, the first season of Tour de France: Unchained followed selected riders and their teams through the 2022 Tour de France. The show attempts to give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's most prestigious cycling races. The series is produced by the same team from the Netflix series Formula 1: Drive to ...
The highest climb in the race was the Cime de la Bonette-Restefond in the 1962 Tour de France, reaching 2802 m. The highest mountain finish in the Tour was at the Col du Galibier in the 2011 edition. Since 1905, the organising newspaper l'Auto named one cyclist of the Tour de France the meilleur grimpeur (best climber).
The 2022 Tour de France sees Slovenian two-time winner Tadej Pogacar aim to claim a third yellow jersey in four years, but he is up against the reigning champion Jonas Vingegaard and his ...
Here is a stage-by-stage guide to how the race will unfold. Stage 1: Bilbao to Bilbao, 182km. The 2023 Tour de France starts outside Bilbao’s iconic Guggenheim Museum, and winds north to the Bay ...
Overall Speed of the Tour de France. The 2022 edition was the fastest Tour de France in history. Jonas Vingegaard rode 3,349,8 km in 79h 33' 20", thus realising an overall speed of 42.102 km/h (26.161 mph). [17] The slowest Tour de France was the edition of 1919, when Firmin Lambot 's average speed was 24.1 km/h.
VICTOR LAFAY WINS STAGE TWO! Sunday 2 July 2023 16:25, Ben Fleming. That is the first Tour stage win for team Cofidis since 2008 - 15 long years of wait ended in superb style by Lafay.
Up the Champs-Élysées. The Champs-Élysées lap is 6.8km (4.1mi) in length. Every year between 1975 and 2023, the final stage of the Tour de France has concluded on the Champs-Élysées, an emblematic street of the city of Paris. As the final stage of the most recognised bike race in the world, winning it is considered very prestigious.