Tour de France 2014 Grand Départ (the 101st edition of the French grand tour) will be in Yorkshire, England. Other candidates were Edinburgh, Florence, Barcelona, and Lille, but race organizer ASO (Amaury Sport Organization) announced today Yorkshire is the winner and the Tour will start from there.
Giro d’Italia History rated by a panel of 100 journalists: RCS Sport, the organizer of Giro d’Italia, has put together 100 journalists to rate the greatest moments of the Italian Grand Tour’s long history. “To exorcise the World’s end, as predicted by the Mayan Prophecy”, journalists were questioned over the most memorable moments in the race’s history.
World’s first 12-speed group developed by Italian manufacturer Tiso. The groupset is also electronic and wireless.
Tour of Flanders 2013 route (100th anniversary of the cobbled classic) route has been presented. The race will be 324 km long, as the first race in 1913.
Pinarello Dogma 65.1 Think 2 2013 edition is the admiral ship of bicycle manufacturer Pinarello. UCI WorldTour teams Sky and Movistar will use Pinarello Dogma 65.1 Think 2 bikes in the 2013 season.
Just before the Tour de France 2012, Team Sky has extended its contract with Pinarello. Wiggins won the Tour de France on a Pinarello Dogma 2.
Pédaleur de charme, meaning “Pedaler of Charm“, was Hugo Koblet‘s nickname (He won Tour de France in 1951 and Giro d’Italia in 1950). He also won the Mountain Classification of Giro d’Italia in 1950.
Orson Welles, the famous American director was the official starter of the Tour de France in 1950. The best-known film directed by him is Citizen Kane.
The film was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories; it won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles. Citizen Kane was voted the greatest film of all time in five consecutive Sight & Sound’s polls of critics until it was displaced by Vertigo in the 2012 poll.
1971 Tour de France was a scene of an epic Luis Ocaña vs Eddy Merckx battle. Eventually, the tour was a great tragedy for Luis Ocaña, who won the Tour de France in 1973 and the Vuelta a España in 1970.
Eddy Merckx won Tour de France in 1969 and 1970, and it looked like he was well on the way to his hat trick. Pre-race predictions were certain that if he would not become ill or crash, Merckx would be the winner, and was speculating whether he would be able to lead the race from start to end. But Luis Ocaña of Spain had something to say about this matter.
Cannondale Slice is a time trial (TT) bike, produced by US-based bicycle manufacturer Cannondale. The bike holds the Ironman World Championship in Kona women course record.
The bike also has three-in-a-row women Ironman World Championship victories (Chrissie Wellington of Great Britain, 2007,2008 and 2009). The current Ironman Hawaii (Kona) women course record was set in 2011 by Chrissie Wellington, whose winning time was 9 hrs 3 mins 29 sec, on a Slice.
Cannondale Slice RS is the top-end time trial (TT) bike of the bicycle manufacturer Cannondale. The new Slice RS first used in Tour de France 2012 by the WorldTour team Liquigas-Cannondale.
For the construction of the frame, Cannondale uses the same Hi-Modulus carbon fiber as found on the Cannondale SuperSix Evo. To offer some comfort, Cannondale uses the SAVE technology found on bikes like Cannondale Synapse on the seat stays.