Road Cycling Blog

As promised, I’ll be featuring the last place finisher of certain stages throughout this year’s Tour. To kick things off, let’s take a closer look at which rider sits last on the General Classifications list at the conclusion of Stage 4.

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Starting tomorrow, I will be featuring the last place finisher of certain stages of this year’s Tour de France.
“Why?”, you may ask.
Because they deserve recognition as well!
Think about it! There are 180 riders in Le Tour. Cycling is a team sport. If it wasn’t for the domestiques, the team leaders would never get their days [...]

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This year’s Tour de France includes 20 teams totaling 180 riders. The breakdown consists of 6 teams from France, 3 from Spain, 2 from USA, 2 from Belgium, 2 from Italy, 2 from Germany, 1 from Great Britain, 1 from Denmark and 1 from the Netherlands. The team roster is listed after the jump…

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Google offers “Street View” for this year’s Tour de France.

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Running from Saturday July 5th to Sunday July 27th 2008, the 95th Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,500 kilometres or roughly 2175 miles.

These 21 stages have the following profiles:

10 flat stages,
5 mountain stages,
4 medium mountain stages,
2 individual time-trial stages.

Distinctive aspects of the race

4 [...]

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