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Editor's Note: Teaching a unit on sports or the Tour in particular?
Want to do an inspirational bulletin board for the beginning of the school
year?
PS: Who says cycling isn't a sport? This has to be one of the most grueling
human endeavors ever invented!

Here are some stats from the Tour de France that could be useful:

LE TOUR DE FRANCE 2004
July 3-25 20 race days 2 rest days
2,105 miles total 124 miles daily average
21 teams with 9 riders 189 riders total
11 stages flat stages
6 mountain stages
2 individual time trials (1 of which was up the Alpe dÂ’Huez, which is 8.5 miles
long at an 8% incline)
1 team time trial
400,000 euros to the yellow jersey winner
Yellow Jersey: Time classification - overall winner
Green Jersey: Points classification
Polka Dot Jersey: Best climber
White Jersey: 25 years or younger time leader
Winner for the sixth year in a row: Lance Armstrong

Moyer, C. LE TOUR DE FRANCE.doc. Foreign Language Teaching Forum
listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (4 Aug. 2004).
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