Tour de France: By the numbers

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2012 Tour Stats

Distance in 2012: 3497km
Start: Liège, Belgium on June 30
Finish: Paris, France on July 22
Time Trials: 3 individual (prologue, stage 9, stage 19)
Mountaintop finishes: 3 (La Planche des Belles Filles,
La Toussuire, Peyragudes)
Total purse: €3.4 million
Winner’s payout: €450,000

The record books

Winners by nation:
France: 36
Belgium: 18
Spain: 12
United Stages: 10
Italy: 9
Luxembourg: 5
Netherlands: 2
Switzerland: 2
Germany: 1
Australia: 1
Denmark: 1
Ireland: 1

Recent winners:
2007: Alberto Contador (ESP)
2008: Carlos Sastre (ESP)
2009: Alberto Contador (ESP)
2010: Andy Schleck (LUX)
2011: Cadel Evans (AUS)

Top recent French placings:
2007: Stéphane Goubert 27th
2008: Sandy Casar 13th
2009: Christophe Le Mével 10th
2010: John Gadret 19th
2011: Thomas Voeckler 4th

Most stage wins in a single Tour: 8 (Charles Pélissier in 1930, Eddy Merckx in 1970 and 1974, and Freddy Maertens in 1976)

Most career stage wins: 34 (Eddy Merckx)

Most riders to wear the yellow jersey in a single edition: 8 (1958 and 1987)

Most days in yellow: 96 (Eddy Merckx, in 7 Tours)

Most overall wins: 7 (Lance Armstrong, 1999-2005)

Most overall podiums: 8 (Raymond Poulidor, who was 2nd three times, 3rd five times; Lance Armstrong, 1st seven times, 3rd once)

Largest margin of victory: 28:17 (Fausto Coppi over Stan Ockers in 1952)

Smallest margin of victory: :08 (Greg LeMond over Laurent Fignon in 1989)

Most green jersey titles: 6 (Erik Zabel)

Most polka dot jersey titles: 7 (Richard Virenque)

Longest solo breakaway: 253km (Albert Bourlon in 1947)

Biggest stage win margin: 22:50 (José Luis Viejo in 1976)

Fastest prologue: 55.152 kph (Chris Boardman in 1994)

Fastest individual time trial: 54.545 kph (Greg LeMond in 1989, over 24.5km)

Fastest mass start stage: 50.355 kph (Mario Cipollini in 1999, over 194.5km from Laval to Blois)

Fastest overall speed: 41.654 kph (Lance Armstrong in 2005)

Oldest overall winner: 36 years 4 months 9 days (Firmin Lambot in 1922)

Youngest overall winner: 19 years 11 months 20 days (Henri Cornet in 1904)

Most participations: 16 (Joop Zoetemelk, 1970-73, 1975-86; George Hincapie, 1996-2011)

A nice collection of stats from the Tour de France

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This makes me mad/sad. So many abandoned bikes and here I’m wanting to get on a bike again!! At the best this makes me want to go to NY and pick up one of these bikes for me, and give the other ones to people that want/need them Anyway check their map here and email photos to bikes@wnyc.org to have them added to the map. Check their flickr gallery and if you’re the owner of an abandoned/unused bike , let me know, I will put it in use. (Seriously!)  Urban Velo In an effort to help rid the streets of the countless abandoned bikes chained to posts across New York City the Transportation Nation organization has started an abandoned bike mapping project, which along with a phone call to 311 (NYC’s directory of city services) allows users to upload photos of any bikes they might think are abandoned and have the city sweep them away. With 377 locations already identified, the program seems to be well on it’s way to achieving it’s goal
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This makes me mad/sad. So many abandoned bikes and here I’m wanting to get on a bike again!! At the best this makes me want to go to NY and pick up one of these bikes for me, and give the other ones to people that want/need them

Anyway check their map here and email photos to bikes@wnyc.org to have them added to the map.

Check their flickr gallery and if you’re the owner of an abandoned/unused bike , let me know, I will put it in use. (Seriously!) 

Urban Velo

In an effort to help rid the streets of the countless abandoned bikes chained to posts across New York City the Transportation Nation organization has started an abandoned bike mapping project, which along with a phone call to 311 (NYC’s directory of city services) allows users to upload photos of any bikes they might think are abandoned and have the city sweep them away. With 377 locations already identified, the program seems to be well on it’s way to achieving it’s goal

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