Tour de France in General

First race - 1903 Number of races so far - 94 Most wins - Lance Armstrong with 7 (USA) 1999-2005 Latest winner - Alberto Contador 2007 Most career Yellow Jerseys- Eddy Merckx (111) Most career stage wins- Eddy Merckx (34) The Tour de France is pretty unique to me in that's it's probably the only sport where you need to take some sort of chemical boost just to complete the course. Its become so drug saturated that Amy Winehouse and Pete Docherty have entered a team! 15 days riding around the country going up the steepest mountains and along the fastest flat bits just seems beyond the normal human being. When I was 14 it took me and ...  Read the complete review

Made you look! Personally, I don't think that there is as much of a community spirit and general interaction between members as there should be. Therefore, I am going to publish a review that will tell people a little more about myself and perhaps prompt others to do the same. I will answer various questions, as set out in the review. I hope that you find this of interest and perhaps an inspiration to make you write about yourself a little. 1. What time do you wake up in the morning? I have two different wake up times for the weekdays. The ‘early’ time, when I have to be at school for lesson one, sees me wake up at ...  Read the complete review

I have been a keen follower of the Tour de France for a number of years now and it never fails to amaze me just how the riders do it. They spend up to 6 hours in the saddle each day for three weeks and only get a couple of rest days. The cyclists really are the most physically and mentally strong people in sport. It is true that many drop out mid-way throught the tour but at least 2/3 of the original field finish in Paris at the end of the tour. This is a remarkable achievement given the distances and terrain involved. The mountain stages are the ultimate test for most riders and this is where the time gaps start to appear. In this years tour we saw how Lance ...  Read the complete review

well folks he's done it again. the great lance armstrong has won the tour de france. let me explain why i knew lance armstrong would win the tour de france and why he's in the minds of all bikers now. he won the tour de france last year while he had CANCER and now he's back without it, and you expect him to loose? so maybe tons of people thought he'd win it again. well i'll be the first to say, that i believe he won't next year. all the racers are psyched out that he won it again and now they're gonna try harder and harder. which makes things harder for Lance. i believe though that not next year, but the year after that he'll win ...  Read the complete review

The Tour de France is one of the most spectacular and definitely most demanding sporting events there are. The riders go for 3 weeks riding for at least four hours a day every day. Some of the mountains they ride over are just positively silly but the ease in which they do so is amazing. On yesterdays stage for example they ended at the top of Mont Ventoux which is an extinct volcano with no vegetation at all on the top few hundred metres. This climb was about a 10% gradient and lasted for almost 20km and all this after already cycling over a few other mountains. The stamina of the top cyclists is phenomenal with them seemingly almost ...  Read the complete review