COMMENTS

  1. The List of Tour de France Winners Stripped of Their Title

    Table Of Cyclists Stripped Of Their Tour De France Titles: 1. Floyd Landis. Floyd Landis, the recipient of various awards in the world of cycling and winner of the 2006 Tour de France, remains the first person in the history of 103 years of Tour de France to be stripped of his winning title.

  2. Doping at the Tour de France

    Major Taylor racing in Paris 1908. Drug-taking in cycling predates the Tour de France. "It existed, it has always existed", said the French reporter and author, Pierre Chany, who followed 49 Tours before his death in 1996. The exhaustion of six-day races on the track was countered by the riders' soigneurs (the French word for "carer"), helpers akin to seconds in boxing.

  3. If pro cycling is now clean, why do records set by dopers keep on

    Stage 17 of the 2022 Tour de France saw UAE's Brandon McNulty riding at approximately 6.58W/kg to break Marco Pantani's 25-year-old record on the Col d'Azet by two and a half minutes. We saw ...

  4. Tour de France Winners List

    List of Winners of the Tour de France cycing event. ... 1999-2005: these races were originally won by Lance armstrong, but in 2012 his wins in the tour de france were removed due to doping violations. 2006: Floyd Landis was the initial winner but subsequently rubbed out due to a failed drug test.

  5. Chart: Tour de France: Too Fast To Be Clean?

    Jul 24, 2023. Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard claimed his second Tour de France victory on Sunday, completing the grueling 3-week, 3,401 kilometer competition with an average speed of 41.12 km/h (25.55 ...

  6. Chart: Has Pro Cycling Cleaned Up Its Act?

    Tour de France: Spanish winners 1903-2023 + Premium statistics Tour de France total French TV audience 2022-2023

  7. List of Tour de France general classification winners

    The Tour de France is an annual road bicycle race held over 23 days in July. Established in 1903 by newspaper L'Auto, the Tour is the best-known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. The race usually covers approximately 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi), passing through France and neighbouring countries such as Belgium.

  8. Wiggins: Only a handful of clean Tour de France winners

    Bradley Wiggins [ Sky] believes that he is one of only a handful of clean riders to have won the Tour de France. Wiggins looking forward to racing with Froome. Wiggins says aim is to return to ...

  9. Tour de France past winners

    Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) winner of the 2022 Tour de France celebrates by holding his bike overhead ... *Oscar Pereiro was awarded the victory of the 2006 Tour de France on October 16, 2007 ...

  10. Tour de France Winners

    Team: Alcyon-Dunlop. Year (s): 1910. To win his only Tour de France, Lapize had to overcome both his teammate Faber, the defending champion, and the Tour's first visit to the Pyrenees. Luckily ...

  11. Tour de France winners

    Several winners have been stripped of their titles, most notably Lance Armstrong, who was the first rider to capture seven titles. The current record holders have won five Tours each: Jacques Anquetil of France (1957 and 1961-64), Eddy Merckx of Belgium (1969-72 and 1974), Bernard Hinault of France (1978-79, 1981-82, and 1985), and ...

  12. List of Tour de France winners

    Multiple winners. The following riders have won the Tour de France on 2 or more occasions. Since the retirement of two-time winner Alberto Contador in 2017, the only active rider on the list as of that year is Chris Froome, currently with 4 wins. Contador had originally won three Tours, but was stripped of one following an anti-doping violation.

  13. Tour de France records and statistics

    This is a list of records and statistics in the Tour de France, road cycling's premier competitive event.. One rider has been King of the Mountains, won the combination classification, combativity award, the points competition, and the Tour in the same year - Eddy Merckx in 1969, which was also the first year he participated.. The only rider to approach the feat of winning the green, polka dot ...

  14. Tour de France statistics and records

    10. ANQUETIL Jacques. 16. Most stage wins. Most top-10s. Statistics on Tour de France. Lance Armstrong has the most victories in Tour de France history, winning 7 out of the 112 editions. The last winner is Jonas Vingegaard in 2023. With 34 stages, Mark Cavendish has the most stagewins.

  15. Palmares Tour de France

    Overview of winners per edition. The last winners of Tour de France are Jonas Vingegaard (2023), Jonas Vingegaard (2022) and Tadej Pogačar (2021). ... Tour de France (2.UWT) Top-3 per edition. GC type. Year. Winner. 2nd. 3rd. 2023. 1 VINGEGAARD Jonas. 2 POGAČAR Tadej. 3 YATES Adam. 2022. 1 ...

  16. Tour de France 2024: All you need to know

    Tour de France past winners in the last 12 years. 2012: Bradley Wiggins (GBr) 2013: Chris Froome (GBr) ... A UAE Emirates Tour de France podium clean sweep is a real possibility

  17. Ten of the best Tour de France past winners

    Greg LeMond (1986, 1989, 1990) 9. Miguel Indurain (1991-1995) 10. Chris Froome (2013, 2015-2017) 1. Maurice Garin (1903) The first-ever winner of the Tour de France, Maurice Garin, dominated the inaugural edition of the race in 1903. He won 3 out of 6 stages and finished nearly 3 hours ahead of his closest competitor, Lucien Pothier, in an ...

  18. Tour de France jerseys explained

    Last 10 winners of the Tour de France mountains classification: 2014: Rafał Majka; 2015: Chris Froome; ... Keeping your electric bike clean shouldn't be any more difficult than a standard bike ...

  19. Tour de France 2024 predictions: Who will stand out in cycling's

    The 2024 Tour de France promises to be a race for the ages, with the four best general classification riders all lining up with realistic aspirations of winning the yellow jersey. ... These are our predictions of the winners and losers of the 111th edition of the Tour de France. Yellow jersey winner. Tadej Pogačar, Jonas Vingegaard, Primož ...

  20. Last ten winners general classification Tour de France

    Starting June 29, it's time for the Tour de France! And the 2024 edition attracts more top riders than ever. A formidable strong field of top contenders will compete between Florence and Nice for ...

  21. Lance Armstrong: I'd have won the Tour de France if everyone was clean

    Lance Armstrong says he and his teams would have won the Tour de France multiple times if the entire peloton was riding clean during his now-stripped reign of seven victories from 1999 through ...

  22. 'The Last Rider' Is Out in Theaters—Watch Tour de France Winner Greg

    'The Last Rider' is in Theaters Now—See Tour de France winner Greg LeMond's Journey on the Big Screen. ... That LeMond was the 'last rider' to race (and win) clean, before the culture of ...

  23. Favorites points classification Tour de France 2024

    Most recent winners green jersey Tour de France. 2023 Jasper Philipsen. 2022 Wout van Aert. 2021 Mark Cavendish. 2020 Sam Bennett. 2019 Peter Sagan. 2018 Peter Sagan. 2017 Michael Matthews.

  24. 'They Know Tadej Pogačar Is Number One'

    Adam Yates and João Almedia will hit the Tour de France at 1,000W after they reigned supreme at the Tour de Suisse, but they won't be getting ideas about usurping Tadej Pogačar.. That's according to UAE Emirates director Joxean Fernández Matxin, who told Bici that Pogačar's armada of world-beating Tour de France wingmen knows their place. ...

  25. Tour de France prize money: How much does yellow jersey win?

    Tour de France jerseys: Yellow, green, white and polka dot explained ... A UAE Emirates Tour de France podium clean sweep is a real possibility ... Tour de France stage winner back on bike after ...

  26. Tour de France: tension builds as rivals Pogacar and Vingegaard brace

    The Tour de France starts in Florence next Saturday billed as a four-way struggle spearheaded by bitter rivals Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard on a route designed to take the world's greatest ...

  27. Tour de France past winners

    *Oscar Pereiro was awarded the victory of the 2006 Tour de France on October 16, 2007, after original winner Floyd Landis was disqualified for doping. Swipe to scroll horizontally All winners

  28. "Feels like cycling coverage is about to go back to the dark ages

    The 39-year-old's omission means the four-time winner misses out on the Tour for the second year running, with Israel-Premier Tech instead opting for a dynamic, stage-hunting team featuring Froome's fellow Brits, and Tour de France, debutants Stevie Williams and Jake Stewart.

  29. Best Sprinters at the 2024 Tour de France

    After winning two stages in the 2022 Tour de France including Stage 21 on the Champs Elysees-a stage that many consider to be the unofficial sprinter's world championship-Philipsen upped the ...

  30. Chart: The Countries Dominating the Tour de France

    This chart shows the Tour de France winners from 1903 to 2023, by cyclist nationality. ... Tour de France: Too Fast To Be Clean? Jul 24, 2023 Tour de France Americans Lose Interest in Post ...