{"id":13842,"date":"2015-07-16T17:33:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T16:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merlincycles.com\/blog\/?p=13842"},"modified":"2015-07-29T16:03:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T15:03:01","slug":"ive-never-watched-the-tour-de-france-until-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merlincycles.com\/blog\/ive-never-watched-the-tour-de-france-until-now\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve never watched the Tour De France&#8230; until now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-13608 alignright lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.merlincycles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P1040892-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"P1040892-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/>AKA I was a Tour de France virgin but now I&#8217;m hooked on the whole thing!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Watching bike racing is pretty new to me. I\u2019ve kept an eye on the all the major races this year but watching the Tour de France is different. I can\u2019t miss it!<\/p>\n<p>The Tour de France is pretty important for us guys at Merlin as it marks the peak of the cycling season. I\u2019ve only been here 9 months in total and I already know how much of a milestone it is.<\/p>\n<h2>Media footprint<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s an atmosphere around the tour and the media has a big part to do with this. Cycling news channels fill their sports sections with the Tour for 3 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>As an avid social media fan it makes it so much easier to follow not only what\u2019s happened in the race but also what the riders are doing and saying after racing&#8217;s finished. It almost makes you feel involved.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all the riders use Twitter. They post their feelings on the stage and their ambitions for the day after. They even post what they\u2019re having for their tea! It\u2019s the communication with their fans that makes the Tour even more personal.<\/p>\n<h2>Understanding the race<\/h2>\n<p>It took me some time to understand the general format of the race. I was always confused as to why a few riders would lead ahead of the peloton making it harder work for themselves. I soon worked out these guys generally aren\u2019t stage winners and they\u2019re just after a bit of sponsor time if not some points for winning a sprint or climb.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also picked up that riding as an individual isn\u2019t going to win you the Tour. It might win you a stage but the top guys want the whole shebang.<\/p>\n<p>Teams have a rider who they\u2019ll work selflessly for to ensure they get him to the front. They\u2019ll take the workload and lead the way so the prospect can drift in their slip stream conserving energy for the last few kilometres of a race.<\/p>\n<h2>The jerseys<\/h2>\n<p>One thing I did understand was the jersey situation. The famous yellow jersey is worn by the fastest rider in terms of overall time. The green jersey is worn by the rider who has earned the most points from the stages. The polka dot jersey is worn by the KOM (king of the mountains) who has earned the most points from the climbs. Lastly, the white jersey is worn by the fastest 25 and under rider \u2013 basically a junior yellow jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Something that even you veteran Tour de France watchers might not know is the reason for giving the yellow jersey holder a lion teddy at the end of a stage? I did a bit of internet searching and found out it\u2019s a logo of French bank Credit Lyonnaise who\u2019ve sponsored the jersey since 1987. You learn something new every day!<\/p>\n<h2>Fantasy leagues<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fantasycycling.roadcyclinguk.com\/\">Road Cycling UK<\/a> have even started a fantasy cycling league for the Tour de France. It gives you a budget of \u20ac65 million to spend on a team of 9 riders and an overall team which gains you extra points.<\/p>\n<p>You can set up your own mini-leagues like we have at Merlin and compete against your friends. I\u2019m ranked around 2100 out of 5000 players so I\u2019m doing alright for a newbie.<\/p>\n<h2>Mountain men<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019re half way through the second week and well into the mountains, which is a big change to the generally flat early stages.<\/p>\n<p>The mountains are more tactical with full team lead outs and late attacks (unless you\u2019re Froome). With Froome taking such a lead early on it looks hard for anyone to make a recovery unless he has a bad day.<\/p>\n<p>Quintana and his Movistar team look to be strong in the mountains and if I had to put my money on anyone to catch Froome, it would be him.<\/p>\n<h2>Drop\u00a0me a line<\/h2>\n<p>Comment any unusual facts you have on the Tour de France for me below and let me know who you think is going to take home the Yellow Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AKA I was a Tour de France virgin but now I&#8217;m hooked on the whole thing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":13608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[593,1567,617,67],"ppma_author":[4643],"class_list":["post-13842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-beginner","tag-le-tour","tag-tdf","tag-tour-de-france","author-kane-knightingale"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I&#039;ve never watched the Tour De France... until now - Merlin Cycles Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merlincycles.com\/blog\/ive-never-watched-the-tour-de-france-until-now\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I&#039;ve never watched the Tour De France... until now\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AKA I was a Tour de France virgin but now I&#039;m hooked on the whole thing! 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