The Danish Jonas Vingegaard and the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar are the big favorites. According to specialists, the rest of the cyclists only aspire to third place. British veteran Mark Cavendish will attempt to break the record for stage wins.
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The 110th edition of the Tour de France, the highest road cycling competition worldwide, begins this Saturday with a stage in Bilbao, Spain, with the Danish Jonas Vingegaard and the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar as favorites to succeed in 2023.
Winners in the last three editions, the Slovenian – from the UAE team– and the Dane – from Jumbo-Visma – are running several points ahead of the rest of the peloton, who, except for a surprise, will compete for third place.
The Tour has always been characterized by great confrontations such as those between Anquetil/Poulidor, Hinault/Lemond or Schleck/Contador.
The duel between Pogacar (winner in 2020 and 2021, second in 2022) and Vingegaard (second in 2021, winner in 2022) falls into this category from their epic battle last year at the Galibier and the Granon, one of the best stages of mountain of the history of Le Tour.
A few hours before the start of the 2023 Tour de France, the betting site Bet365 has Vingegaard (2.10) as the favorite for the final winner, followed by Pogacar (2.15). Then comes the Australian Jai Hindley (15.00).
Away from the fight for the general classification in the 2023 Tour de France, veteran Mark Cavendish will try to break the record for stage wins that he holds tied with Eddy Merckx (34).
At 38, the Briton is no longer the best sprinter in the peloton, but ‘Cav’ has promised to drop everything to mark his name among the legends of the Tour de France.
The Tour de France 2023 in figures
Cyclists, route, public, television, security… These are the figures for the 110th edition of the Tour de France (from July 1 to 23):
1: the bib number of Jonas Vingegaard, current champion
2: rest days (July 10 and 17)
4: the different types of jerseys (yellow, green, speckled, white)
4: high arrivals
5: French teams at the start
6: the regions through which the race will pass
7: the ambulances
8: the flat stages and the mountain stages
8: number of cyclists lined up for each team at the start
10: the doctors permanently present on the Tour
21: the stages
22: the competing teams
22.4: the number of kilometers of the only planned time trial, between Passy and Combloux
25: It is the 25th start of the Tour abroad in history
30: the heights of this edition (special category, first and second category)
35: climb the Puy de Dôme for the first time in 35 years
36: French final victories since 1903
40: stage cities (12 of them unpublished)
60: the networks that broadcast the race live
115.5 km: the distance of the shortest line stage (Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines – Paris)
176: runners in competition
190: the countries that broadcast the Tour
209 km: the longest stage (Vitoria-Gasteiz – Saint-Sebastian)
300: law enforcement agencies permanently attached to the Tour
500: euros, the daily gain granted to the bearer of the jersey yellow
1,000 euros ($1,084): the minimum prize received by any runner who finishes the race
2,304 m: the highest point of this edition, the Alto de la Loze
3,405 km: the total distance
11,000 euros ($11,928): the prize for winning a stage
20,000 euros (21,687 dollars): the prize for the most combative runner in the event
28,000: the gendarmes, police officers and firefighters mobilized
500,000 euros (542,198 dollars): the check delivered to the final winner
2.3 million euros (2.5 million dollars): the global amount of prizes and bonuses
Tour de France records
Most stage wins in a single Tour: 8 by Charles Pélissier (1930), Eddy Merckx (1970, 1974) and Freddy Maertens (1976)Most stage wins: Eddy Merckx and Mark Cavendish (34)Most cyclists who have dressed the jersey yellow in a single Tour: 8 in 1958 and 1987 Greater number of days in yellow: 97 for Eddy Merckx (in 7 participations) Greater number of victories: 5 for Jacques Anquetil (between 1957 and 1964), Eddy Merckx (1969 to 1974), Bernard Hinault (1978 to 1985) and Miguel Indurain (1991 to 1995). Lance Armstrong won 7 but was later disqualified for dopingMost country victories: France (36)Most podium finishes: 8 by Raymond Poulidor (3 times 2nd, 5 times 3rd) in 14 starts between 1962 and 1976Longest time distance in the general classification (since 1947) between the winner and the second: 28 minutes and 17 seconds (Fausto Coppi – Stan Ockers in 1952) Shortest time distance: 8 seconds (Greg LeMond – Laurent Fignon in 1989) Greatest number of jerseys of polka dots of the best climber: 7 (Richard Virenque) Highest number of jerseys Best Young Whites: 3 (Jan Ullrich, Andy Schleck, Tadej Pogacar) Longest solo breakaway: 253 km by Albert Bourlon in 1947 Greatest time difference between a stage winner and second: 22 minutes and 50 seconds per José Luis Viejo in 1976 Fastest individual time trial: 55.446 km/h by Rohan Dennis in 2015 over 13.8 km Fastest team time trial: 57.841 km/h by Orica in 2013 over 25 km Highest average speed in a normal stage: 50.355 km/h by Mario Cipollini in 1999 over 194.5km (Laval-Blois)Highest average speed in a Tour as a whole: 41.654km/h by Lance Armstrong, later disqualified (2005)Oldest winner: Firmin Lambot (36 years, 4 months and 9 days) in 1922 Youngest winner: Henri Cornet (19 years, 11 months and 20 days) in 1904 Oldest stage winner: Pino Cerami (41 years, 3 months and 3 days) in 1963 Youngest stage winner: Fabio Battesini ( 19 years, 4 months and 13 days) in 1931 Greater number of participations: 18 by Sylvain Chavanel (2001 to 2018)
* With information from AFP.
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