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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 best-known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. [1]
The winner of the first several Tour de France races wore a green armband instead of a yellow jersey. [1] After the second Tour de France, the rules were changed, and the general classification was no longer calculated by time, but by points. This points system was kept until 1912, after which it changed back to the time classification.
The team classification is a prize given in the Tour de France to the best team in the race. It has been awarded since 1930 , and the calculation has changed throughout the years. There is no coloured jersey for this, but the numbers on the jerseys of the members of the team with the best performance in the general classification at the end of ...
The 2023 Tour de France sees Jonas Vingegaard return to defend his crown after ... Wout van Aert is the reigning champion in this classification but Vingegaard’s Jumbo-Visma teammate may need to ...
Jonas Vingegaard will collect his second yellow jersey in Paris and a big winners’ cheque for topping the general classification
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. [18]
France’s Julian Alaphilippe lived up to the hype as he snatched the Tour de France overall leader’s yellow jersey by winning the third stage on Monday. The world number one jumped away from ...
The Tour de France grants the ... from each country contributing towards their nation's overall score. ... season-long classification system was the ...