Tour de France 2014 Infographic is here.
The 101th Tour de France is all geared up to start. We at Techdivine, thought of creating an inforgraphic for all of you to know more about this years Tour de France in a fun and easy way.
We have also added some French words that are closely associated with the sport as part of this cool infographic.
Hope you like it. Do share your comments with us here.
July 5th 2014 – July 27th 2014
101 th Tour de France – Distance: 3,664 Kms
Tour de France 2014
Know your Sport: Popular words related with the sport: Tour de France
- PELOTON – Main bunch or field of riders
- Bidon – Water bottle
- Maillot jaune – The Yellow jersey worn by the Tour de France leader
- Equipe – Team
- Combativité – Meaning aggression: But the Combativité award goes to the rider who shows the most ‘sporting aggression’s’
- Domestique – These are the cyclists who sacrifice themselves to help their team leaders clinch victory
- Etape – STAGES in the race
- Parcours – ROUTE taken during each race
- Hors categorie – Describes the “toughest climbs” in a mountain stage
- Tete de la course – ‘front of the race’
- Directeur sportif – Team manager who follows the race in a team car and gives strategic orders to riders.
- Caravane publicitaire – Sponsored vehicles who give out free samples and cool gadgets for spectators
- Contre la montre – The time trials. It’s also called the race of the trust where riders race against the clock.
- Musette – The little cloth shoulder bag that contains water bottle, food etc for the riders.
STAGES at the race 21 stages
- 9 flat
- 5 hill
- 6 mountain
- 1 Individual time trial
- 2 rest days
9 New Stage Cities:
- Leeds (start of stage 1)
- Harrogate (finish of stage 1)
- York (start of stage 2)
- Sheffield (finish of stage 2)
- Cambridge (start of stage 3)
- Ypres (finish of stage 5)
- Oyonnax (finish of stage 11)
- Risoul (finish of stage 14)
- Maubourguet Pays du Val d’Adour (start of stage 19)
Prize money: Total of around 2 million Euros will be awarded and given out to the teams and the riders, including 450 000 Euros to the winner of the final individual general classification.
Jerseys:
- The Yellow Jersey – worn by the leader of the general individual time classification.
- Prize money: € 450,000 for the overall winner
- The Green Jersey – worn by the leader of the points classification.
- Prize money: € 25,000 for the overall winner
- The Red Polka Dot Jersey – worn by the best climber.
- Prize money: € 25,000 for the overall winner
- The White Jersey – worn by the best young rider aged 25 years old or less in the general individual time classification.
- Prize money: € 20,000 for the overall winner.
The Combativity Award – This distinction is awarded at the end of each stage by a jury made up of cycling specialists. An overall winner is designated after the last stage of Le Tour.
Prize money: € 20,000 for the overall winner
The team classification – This classification is determined by adding the times of the best three
riders of each team in each stage (except for the team time-trial).
Prize money: € 50,000 for the winning team
TEAMS:
22 teams in the TdF (18 UCI WorldTour teams and four wild-card teams) with nine riders in each team (198 riders)
Countries visiting TDF this year: England, France, Belgium, Spain.
BIKE weight: Min is 6.8 Kgs
Calories:
- 6,000 Calories burnt on an average by tour cyclists a day and
- 8,000 calories during mountain rides.
Spectators:
- Lining the route to watch TDF LIVE – 12 Million
- Viewers worldwide – 3.5 Billion in 190 countries
Most WINS till date: France (36), Belgium (18) & Spain (11).
Image and Sources:
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