FF6 2nd week Tour de France

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FF6 2nd week Tour de France

Post by Scotty C » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:12 pm

We will be doing some of todays stage on our way up from Cannes.

ITV4 tonight at 7pm

http://www.letour.fr/2007/TDF/LIVE/us/9 ... html#zone1

Col du telegraphe and col du galibier

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PS we might be going a bit quicker. Well on the way up anyway.
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Post by Sanjøy » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:14 pm

You do not want to be first over col du galibier ...... bad luck.
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Post by alicrozier » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:22 pm

Can we have an official red polka dot jersey. :)
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Post by Scotty C » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:26 pm

alicrozier wrote:Can we have an official red polka dot jersey. :)
Think that will be mine :lol:

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Post by Andy G » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:31 pm

not one off's though mate :(

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Post by Scotty C » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:39 pm

9 of us doing the second week.
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Post by Scotty C » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:40 pm

Andy G wrote:not one off's though mate :(

Get a Monkey dshirt chaps - works in the races :D
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Post by alicrozier » Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:08 pm

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Post by Andy G » Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:52 pm

struggling to get them back in time now dude :(

We do have a few good designs coming through that might be here in time for the outing! I'll be wearing a few i suspect :wink:
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Post by Sanjøy » Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:47 pm

Thought you boys would be after the green shirt as Ed has the white on in the bag ?
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Post by ed » Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:55 pm

What does the white one mean, the slowest??
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Post by Sanjøy » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:09 pm

For the young bucks.
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Post by tut » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:18 pm

black one again.........

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Post by Sanjøy » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:24 pm

Jerseys

In the Tour, a number of jerseys are given out to mark the leaders in various competitions that run during the race. The jerseys, especially the yellow, mark out the wearer from the rest of the 200 cyclists.

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The yellow jersey (or maillot jaune) in the Tour de France is probably the greatest prize in the world of cycling. It was introduced in 1919 by Henri Desgrange to allow spectators and journalists to identify the race leader. It is yellow because that was the colour of the pages of L'Auto - a newspaper that sponsored the race. After each stage, the yellow jersey is awarded to the person who is top of the overall classification; he wears this on the road the next day. The winner of the Tour de France is the yellow jersey holder after the final stage. He also wears the jersey on the first stage of the next tour. Eddy Merckx holds the record for most yellow jerseys worn.
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The green jersey is worn by the winner of the secondary competition that is for the most consistent finisher: it generally goes to a sprint specialist. It was been in existence since 1953. Points for this competition are awarded for the top finishers in every stage. The amount of points per stage is dependant on whether the stages are flat, hilly, mountainous or time trials. In the middle of stages there are intermediate sprints that also have points that go towards the green jersey competition.
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The King of the Mountains is the third of the major competitions, the leader of which wears a red polka-dot on white jersey. The competition started in 1933, with the jersey coming later, in 1975. At the summits of climbs, points are awarded to first people across: how many points and how many people are awarded them is dependent on the severity of the climb. Normally one or two riders will rack up most of the points from the first flat week of the race, and will lose the jersey to proper climbers in the first day in the mountains.
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The Young Rider competition is fairly self-explanatory: the winner is the leading rider under the age of 26 in general classification. The Young Rider wears the white jersey. The competition and the jersey arrived in 1975. Between 1989 and 2000, the white jersey wasn't worn. Since 1996, the competition has been called Souvenir Fabio Casartelli after the late rider who died on the descent of the Col de Portet d'Aspet in 1995.
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In the Team Prize competition, on each day, the times of the first three riders across the line from each team are added up and counted.
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The Combativity Award goes to riders who attack regularly throughout the race. They are allowed to wear a white-on-red race number. The award first came into being in 1959. The cyclists who specialise on long attacks on the flat, such as Frenchman Jacky Durand3, normally try to do well here because their attacks usually leave them unable to keep up with the rest of the riders when caught - and finish many minutes behind on the stage. Generally, the more aggressive cyclists will be featured most on the television coverage, so the team sponsor likes to have some among their number.
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The rainbow jersey is not a Tour de France award, but is nevertheless another jersey that is likely to be seen. The reigning World Road Race champion is entitled to wear the rainbow jersey rather than his team colours during the road stages. Similarly, it is also worn during the time trials by the reigning World Time Trial champion.4 Former winners of any World Championship title, either on track or road, have the rainbow colours on the sleeves of their normal team jersey.
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Like the World Championships, most cycling nations hold a one-off race to determine their National Champion. The winner has the right to wear his national jersey instead of the team colours for the year. In the Tour de France, the National Champions seen most often are the Italians, Dutch, French and Germans - as many others ride for teams that don't get included in the Tour.
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The Lanterne Rouge is the mocking title of the last-placed man in the overall classification, named after the red light shown on trains to mark the rearmost carriage.
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The red jersey was awarded - in a now defunct competition - to winners of most intermediate sprints. In 1963 only, the green points jersey was actually red to please the sponsor. The competition started in 1971: however, the jersey only lasted from 1984 to 1989.
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Another obsolete jersey was multi-coloured, for the person ranked highest across the yellow, green, KOM and red (when it existed) competitions. From 1968 to 1974 the winner got a white jersey. The competition reappeared in 1980 for three years, and then the multi-coloured jersey was awarded between 1985 and 1989.
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Post by Scotty C » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:00 am

Was a great stage yesterday.

photo from my trip in 2003. If you zoom in you can see the road zig zag right of centre.

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