The Tour de France is the world’s most celebrated bike race and one of the biggest sporting events in the world. Whether you’re cycling-mad or you don’t know anything about the sport, you will have heard of it. If you’re wondering what all the fuss is about or want to know even more about this iconic race, this is the video for you!
00:00 Intro
00:41 Level 1 – Beginner
01:33 Level 2 – Amateur
03:10 Level 3 – Advanced
05:48 Level 4 – Expert
09:38 Level 5 – Pro
13:03 Outro
Correction:
10:41 Col du Tourmalet is the most featured climb in Tour history
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34 Comments
What is your favourite thing about the Tour de France?
Would like to know more about the restrictions on riders who crash and then get behind a team car and are allowed to draft a bit until they gain a little time back. What are the nuances in rules and etiquette in the peloton with regard to these mishaps?
Is Matt still even alive?
did he mention how many mechanics each team has?
What's the pay structure for the tour?
A Brit calling football soccer?!?🤯🤯🤯🤯
5:25 where are those rocks???
Haha!!
Lets not forget Lance Armstrong 😳
Imagine being british and saying some word beginning with s instead of football smh
So it's just a matter of time till the Tour de France starts in Qatar?
Unfortunately Tour De France Femmes is not on ITV4 so has minimum exposure.
Somenody could have told Connor how to pronounce femmes?!
198 riders?
22*8 = 176
The White jersey should only go to one rider, one time only, keep it under 25 or 23 whatever but give a new rider a chance, it's a major jersey afterall .
I knew everything apart from the history with the women on stage 5, I'm a big nerd
in soccer ? How dare you ? 🙂
The Greatest rider of all time is Lance Armstrong. 7 times champion.
So it costs 2 Bugattis to host a Tour stage, got it.
Lance Armstrong WON the Tour de France 7 times don't you ever forget that.
The start of this video quicky explains exactly why women's "professional" road cycling is so lame and gets no real respect: the men race for 21 days and 3500 km and the women for only 8 days and 1000 km. Is there a "men's marathon" and a "women's marathon"–and is the women's shorter and easier? No. Is there a "men's ironman triathlon" and a "women's ironman triathlon"–and is the women's shorter and easier? No. Sure, women in general–at the elite level–or typically not as strong as men. (The women's world record time Ironman is about 45 minutes slower than the men's–over about 8 hrs of intense competition.)
So… if the women want PARITY with the men… in terms of money and endorsements and RESPECT… the women need to actually COMPETE (i.e SUFFER) ON THE SAME LEVEL as the men. The distances cannot be SHORTER… the climbs cannot be LOWER… the stages cannot be FEWER–and still be considered PRO cycling–or still be called THE TOUR de FRANCE. It just doesn't work like that. You want the respect, you gotta do the work.
Strange. I remember seeing a guy on the highest podium spot for 7 years straight.
It's actually 9 riders in 22 teams… 198 riders
This is awesome. I just got into watching cycling like 2 months ago and videos like this help out alot understanding it. Someone else said doing a video on breakaways would be great. I agree.
I don't understand why they didnt have helmets at the start of the tour
If there are 198 cyclists between 22 teams, isn't that 9 cyclists per team (rather than 8)? Or is it another number which is wrong? Or is there 1 reserve cyclist per team?
did he really say soccer?
Lance won 7 lol
Soccer?? You mean football!
soccer bruv 😢 ur British,not cool
Awesome breakdown. As a newbie following the tour for the first time, I would love a video giving some context on each competitive team, their leaders, and key themes! Thanks again.
Loved this information. Thanks GCN!
Football.
He never mentioned Lance… at all… hmm….
Never discussed breakaway. Never said the word peloton. This was a waste of time lol