Le Tour de France 2015 L.O: To be able to give 2 facts about the 2015 Tour de France (Bradley Wiggins winner 2013) (Chris Froome 2014)

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1 Le Tour de France 2015 L.O: To be able to give 2 facts about the 2015 Tour de France (Bradley Wiggins winner 2013) (Chris Froome 2014)

2 L’arrivée: PARIS en France
Le Tour de France 2015 The 102nd Tour in History! samedi le 4 juillet Le Grand Départ: Utrecht (Pays-Bas) dimanche le 26 Julliet L’arrivée: PARIS en France

3 Que sais-tu du Tour de France?
STARTER: What do you already know about the most famous race in cycling history? Discuss.

4 Les Pays-Bas *La Belgique *La France,
Le Tour de France 2015 198 Coureurs 22 Jours 3,360 kms 22 équipes 7 chaînes de montagne 3 étapes accidentées 3 Pays – Les Pays-Bas *La Belgique *La France, Plus de 100 Ans d’Histoire Printable route map: Un but …. …être le vainqueur le 26 Juillet et gagner le maillot JAUNE 

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6 Dans le Tour…. Le maillot jaune Le vélo Les cyclistes Le peleton
Le parcours L’étape Le vainqueur

7 Did you know? The Tour de France 2007 started in London
3.5 billion people watch The Tour every year on TV Lance Armstrong is the only rider in 97 years to have won the Tour 7 times in a row, but was stripped of his wins in 2013 due to his use of performance-enhancing drugs during the wins. An Englishman, Tom Simpson, died while riding the Tour in 1967 An average stage of the Tour takes 7 hours to ride A rider burns almost 6,000 calories while riding a stage (3 times the normal daily amount for a man!) There are usually 6-8 HUGE mountains to ride up each year!! (each are higher than the highest mountain in the UK) Tour de France riders usually weigh between 9-10 stone This year there will be 13.3 km of COBBLES to ride over! The “BROOM WAGON” is a car with a broom sticking out of it that marks the end of the peloton for each stage (i.e. that the last rider has gone through the finish line)

8 Cool facts about the Tour…
Sept cent quatre-vingt douze Cinquante cinq Trente sept Vingt Dix Huit secondes Cinq Un Deux Total number of tyres used by the peloton (2009) 55km/hr – fastest speed recorded by a rider (1994 by Chris Boardman – British rider) The oldest ever Tour de France winner (1922!) The youngest ever winner (1904!) Fewest ever finishers of the race (1919 – 10 out of 69 starters!) Smallest winning margin ever (1989) The number of stages Mark Cavendish won in the 2010 Tour (British rider) The number of Irishmen to win the Tour The number of British men to win the Tour  Students to write on mini whiteboards what the numbers are before the fact is then revealed

9 Tour de France - Grand Départ – Yorkshire 2014 from 2014 Tour de France in Yorkshire
Pics from the cavelcade prior to the race passing the spectators as well as pics from the race itself

10 The Tour de France explained in animation (10.21 minutes)

11 https://youtu.be/8Q2cuqH_AME
Beginner’s guide to the Tour de France Watch video and answer as many questions as you can! (5.49 minutes)

12 More cycling vocab… accélérer   to accelerate déraper – to skid s'accrocher à   to cling, hang on to s’échapper – to break away attaquer   to attack, spurt ahead grimper – to climb changer d'allure   to change pace prendre la tete – to changer de vitesse   to shift gears take the lead courir   to ride ralentir – to slow down dépasser   to overtake rouler – to ride

13 Belleville-Rendez-vous