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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 most well-known and prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. [ 1] The race usually covers approximately 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi), passing through ...
About. 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 ...
Tour de France coverage can be found this year on ITV4, Eurosport, Discovery+ and GCN+ (Global Cycling Network). Live racing each day will be shown on ITV4, starting around midday ( guide here ...
NBC Sports and Peacock already had Tour de France broadcast rights for 2023. All of the men’s stages beginning in 2024 will be live from start-to-finish on the streaming service Peacock.
This is a list of mountain passes and hills in the Tour de France. Among the passes most often crossed, Col du Tourmalet, Col d'Aubisque, Col d'Aspin, Col de Peyresourde and Col du Galibier predominate, while the highest peak ever reached is Cime de la Bonette-Restefond (2,802 m (9,193 ft)), used in the 1962, 1964, 1993 and 2008 Tour de France.
Stage-by-stage guide to the 2023 Tour de France route. Jersey standings after stage five. 17:11, Ben Fleming. After stage five, there has been plenty of change in the jersey standings with both ...
Indurain is the only man to win five consecutive Tours. Henri Cornet is the youngest winner; he won in 1904, just short of his 20th birthday. Firmin Lambot is the oldest winner, he was 36 years, 4 months old when he won in 1922. [ 5] French cyclists have won the most Tours; 21 cyclists have won 36 Tours among them.
The young rider classification is a secondary competition in the Tour de France, that started in 1975. Excluding the years 1989 to 1999, the leader of the young rider classification wears a white jersey ( French: maillot blanc ). It goes to whichever eligible rider has the best time in the general classification .