Blog - Tour de France 2013

All information and rumours about the Tour de France 2013: from Grand Départ to the official route via participating teams and selected riders!

Added: friday 19 July 2013 at 23:23:00
The Mont Semnoz as the final big climb of the forelast Tour stage - the race route in video !
As the last climb in the Alps, the Mont Semnoz will tomorrow be the decisive climb in the forelast stage of the Tour de France 2013.

In the series of videos of the most important climbs in the Alps of this Tour de France, you can now discover this unique climb which will allow to determine who's the best climber of this Tour the day before the final finish in Paris, at night.

After the start in Annecy, the riders will climb the Côte du Puget of the 2nd category at km 12.5 (5.4 km @ 5.9%), the Col de Leschaux of the 3rd category at km 17.5 (3.6 km @ 6.1%), the Côte d'Aillon-le-Vieux of the 3rd category at km 43 (6 km @ 4%), the Col des Prés of the 3rd category at km 51 (3.4 km @ 6.9%), the Mont Revard of the 1st category at km 78.5 (15.9 km @ 5.6%), before they start the hors catégory Mont Semnoz climb which will have its summit at ...
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Added: thursday 18 July 2013 at 23:24:00
The Col de la Madeleine and the Col de la Croix Fry in video images down to Le Grand-Bornand
This article has not been translated in English but you can still watch the movies below with the climb of the Col de la Madeleine, the climb of the Col de la Croix Fry and the descent towards Le Grand-Bornand.

Dans la série de vidéos Kinomap des principaux cols dans les Alpes, vous pouvez découvrir dans cet article deux des principales montées de l'étape de ce vendredi 19 juillet entre le Bourg d'Oisans et le Grand-Bornand.

En effet, vous découvrirez une vidéo de la longue montée du Col de la Madeleine, deuxième montée de hors catégorie de cette étape et une vidéo avec la montée et la descente du Col de la Croix Fry jusqu'au Grand Bornand.
Le Col de la Madeleine
Commençons par le Col de la Madeleine qui suivra dans l'étape le Col du Glandon, tous deux de hors catégorie. Le Col de la Madeleine est long de 19,2 km avec une pente moyenne de 7,9%.

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Added: wednesday 17 July 2013 at 19:22:00
The Col de Manse, the Alpe d'Huez and the Col de Sarenne in video!
After the Col de Manse from Gap, the race route of the Embrun-Chorges time trial, we continue the series of videos of the Tour de France 2013 race route in the Alps with the videos of the climb of the Col de Manse from La Bâtie-Neuve (the other side then the one which was climbed on Tuesday), the Alpe d'Huez, the connection route between the Alpe d'Huez and the climb of the Col de Sarenne and the descent of the Col de Sarenne.

Forming together the most important climbs of tomorrow's Tour de France 2013 stage between Gap and the Alpe d'Huez, these videos wi ...
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Added: tuesday 16 July 2013 at 20:07:00
The Embrun - Chorges time trial race route in video!
... and the start order and times!
The second individual time trial stage of the Tour de France 2013 is particularly difficult, one of the most difficult time trials these last years in the Tour de France, between Embrun and Chorges.

After the video of the climb of the Col de Manse, velowire.com today allows you to discover the full race route of this individual effort, and the list with the start order and times for the different riders who will start in this stage tomorrow.
The race route of the Embrun > Chorges stage in video
Between Embrun and Chorges the riders might not have the occasion to admire the nice views on the Lac de Serre-Ponçon, but you'll probably be able to view them on TV and even in the video in this article!

Each of the riders will have to ...
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Added: monday 15 July 2013 at 18:08:00
velowire.com on L'Equipe 21 and lequipe.fr
Maybe you know L'Equipe 21, but if not, it's one of the latest DVB channels in France, entirely dedicated to sports.

A bit before the Tour de France 2013, 100th edition of the Grande Boucle, Stéphane Garabed, reporter for this channel, mainly for cycling and for some other sports, contacted me to realise an item about my passion for the Tour de France and for cycling in general.

This morning, during the rest day of the Tour, this item was broadcasted by the channel in the "L'Equipe du Matin" show and it has also been published online by lequipe.fr.

I therefore now propose you to watch this item hereunder in case you didn't get a chance to see it live or if you would like to see it again!

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Added: monday 15 July 2013 at 12:09:00
Tomorrow the Col de Manse will be climbed in the final part of the Tour stage - discover it in our video!
Early June, as every year, the Critérium du Dauphiné was organised by Amaury Sport Organisation, the same organisor as for the Tour. This race, which is a sort of miniature Tour de France, takes place in the Alps and for velowire.com this was thus the perfect occasion to cover the Critérium du Dauphiné 2013 and at the same time, in collaboration with Kinomap, go discover the main climbs of the Tour de France 2013 in the Alps.

Now the 100th edition of the Grande Boucle enters the Alps, you'll discover day after day a video of the climb of these mountains.

We'll start this series of course with the ...
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Added: tuesday 02 July 2013 at 19:26:00
In Nice the team time trial revolutionises the classification, Simon Gerrans takes yellow with Orica-GreenEDGE
The 4th stage of the Tour de France 2013 took place today in the streets of Nice as a team time trial.

Not really surprisingly this timed effort led to quite some changes in the general classification since the gaps were quite small (mainly at 1 second). The top teams however rode quite similar times (the 4 first within 10 seconds) in this time trial and this stage will thus not "falsify" the final general classification on the Champs-Elysées in 17 days.
The summary of the team time trial of the Tour de France 2013 in Nice (4th stage)
After a flight from Corsica to get back to the continent, the riders arrived in Nice last night while the staff of the teams and all other followers were lucky to test the quite original timings of Corsica Ferries which wakes up its passengers at 3.25AM to get off the boat around 6.00AM ...

When the teams started to come by one by one at the finish line in N ...
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Added: friday 28 June 2013 at 11:03:00
The list of participating riders in the Tour de France 2013 and their numbers, who will follow up on Bradley Wiggins?
Tomorrow will see the start of the Tour de France 2013, hundredth edition! It's therefore time for us to have a quick look at the participating teams: 22 teams of 9 riders together form a peloton of 198 riders. They will get together for the start of the first stage this Saturday in Porto-Vecchio (see the Tour de France 2013 race route in detail on Google Maps).
The 22 participating teams in the Tour de France 2013
Let's have a look at these 22 teams and more importantly the leaders among the 9 selected riders for each of them.
Team Sky
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Added: wednesday 26 June 2013 at 11:15:00
Listen to the first LNC radio show in podcast!
Last Saturday, at the French Championships, the French Cycling Ligue (Ligue Nationale de Cyclisme or LNC) launched, in collaboration with velowire.com, a new radio station broadcasted on the Internet, LNC radio.

Our first show discussed things like the French Championships, the Tour de France 2013, le calendar of French cycling races and the education of young riders.

You might not have had the occasion to listen to this show when it was live or it might have been a bit too fast for you in French ... Therefore, we now offer you the opportunity to listen to it (again) with our podcast, either via the player below, or by ...
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Added: monday 24 June 2013 at 21:37:00
The Tour de France 2013 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and other details
As usual, velowire.com offers you, a few days before the start of the Tour de France 2013, to discover all details of the race route of this 100th edition of the Grande Boucle, on Google Maps/Google Earth.

With the information in this article you'll exactly know where, in which cities and villages the Tour will go and thus prepare your visit or simply better understand the race!
Some preliminary information ...
Some of you might already have discovered the Google Maps of the race route published by the organisor of the Tour de France on the official website of the race.

velowire.com could thus have simply set up a link to that website or integrated the maps as published on letour.fr. When you look a little bit closer however you qui ...
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