Tour de France 2010
 | The 97th Tour de France will start on Saturday 3rd July until Sunday 25th July 2010 covering more that 3,500 kilometers. http://www.letour.fr/indexus.html |
Tuesday 13 July will see Stage 9 of the tour arrive at Morzine-Avoriaz to Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (204.5 km)
Christian Prudhomme director of the Tour de France comments;“With four climbs on the programme, this will be the major alpine stage, following the first rest day. The stage will start in Haute-Savoie then, after a climb to the Colombière mountain pass, cross the border into Savoie and the Aravis pass, followed by the Saisies pass. The final and most gruelling challenge will be the Madeleine pass that lies thirty kilometres from the finish in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne.”
The course changes every year but always finishes in Paris. The Grand Depart for 2010 will start in Rottodam.
The Tour de France attracts 15 million spectators in a typical year's race.
4 million viewers will watch a day's TV coverage.
The official Tour de France website attracts 20 million visitors and 350 million page views.
The rider with the lowest aggregate time at the end of each day wears the prestigious yellow jersey
Lance Armstrong currenly holds the most tours wins, with seven consective win from 1999-2005.
Henri Cornet is the youngest winner to date to win a Tour de France, age 20 in the 1904 race.
Firmin Lambot is the oldest winner to date to win a Tour de France, age 36 in the 1922 race.
In the course of the tour a rider will burn 123,900 calories
The number of pedal strokes taken per rider over the tour is 324,000 at 60rpm and 486,000 at 90rpm
