TOUR DE FRANCE... How does it work?

"mu mu" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I've been listening to the play-by-play highlights on NPR. They
describe a head-to-head finish, as the riders race full speed towards
the finish line (of that days stage).

If the riders leave in the morning staggered (i.e. not at the same
time), how does the end of the stage become a head-to-head sprint?

Just point me to a relevant web page if it goes into this level of
technicality.

Thanks.

They only leave at staggered intervals on the time trial stages. There are
only a couple of those each race. That's when they race individually
against the clock. The rest of the time, they're mass starts.

Bob C.

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[email hidden] wrote on 7/23/04 12:08 PM:

Quoted message said:

I've been listening to the play-by-play highlights on NPR. They
describe a head-to-head finish, as the riders race full speed towards
the finish line (of that days stage).

If the riders leave in the morning staggered (i.e. not at the same
time), how does the end of the stage become a head-to-head sprint?

Just point me to a relevant web page if it goes into this level of
technicality.

Thanks.

They all start at the same time, except in the time trials.

-Sonarrat.

Quoted message said:

If the riders leave in the morning staggered (i.e. not at the same
time), how does the end of the stage become a head-to-head sprint?

If you leave your garage to go to point A at 8.00 and your wife leaves the same
garage to go to the same point A at 8.02, but she goes faster than you , it
will be a time where she catches you thus the sprint ...

"mu mu" <[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

I've been listening to the play-by-play highlights on NPR. They
describe a head-to-head finish, as the riders race full speed towards
the finish line (of that days stage).

If the riders leave in the morning staggered (i.e. not at the same
time), how does the end of the stage become a head-to-head sprint?

Just point me to a relevant web page if it goes into this level of
technicality.

www.google.com
or
www.letour.fr

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Thanks.