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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]
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]
Voigt (front) at the 2005 Tour de France; he held the overall lead of the race for one day, after the ninth stage. After a strong placing in the stage 1 time trial of the 2005 Tour de France, Voigt was only trailing race leader Armstrong by 1 minute and he tried hard to take the overall lead. He took part in many attacks, before the first rest ...
Former Tour de France winner Egan Bernal broke his collarbone in a crash during a race in Spain, his team said Monday. The 28-year-old Colombian cyclist was hospitalized after the incident at the ...
This was the first Tour de France stage victory of his career. He defended his lead the following day which concluded with a mountaintop finish on Alpe d'Huez . Over the next few stages, Pogačar made a few attacks, which forced open small gaps with the other top-placed GC riders, but Vingegaard was able to respond to each of them. [ 42 ]
Folsom’s Neilson Powless is making his mark in the world of cycling faster than many expected.
Floyd Landis (born October 14, 1975) is an American former professional road racing cyclist.At the 2006 Tour de France, he would have been the third non-European winner in the event's history, but was disqualified after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
Bernard Hinault (pronounced [bɛʁ.naʁ i.no]; born 14 November 1954) is a French former professional road cyclist.With 147 professional victories, [1] including five times the Tour de France, he is often named among the greatest cyclists of all time.