There are over 4,500 people working behind the scenes everyday on the Tour de France. They have to mark the course, build the start and finish gate, handle tv broadcast to over 190 countries and then take it all down at the end of the day. And they do it all over again each day.
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Take a look at what all goes into the organizational logistics behind the biggest race in the world. As GoPro takes us behind the scenes of the world’s most renowned stage bicycle race.
The Tour de France was created in 1903. The roots of the Tour de France trace to the emergence of two rival sports newspapers in the country. On the one hand was Le Vélo, the first and the largest daily sports newspaper in France which sold 80,000 copies a day. On the other was L’Auto, which had been set-up by journalists and business-people including Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, Adolphe Clément and Édouard Michelin in 1899.
The rival paper emerged following disagreements over the Dreyfus Affair, a cause célèbre (in which de Dion was implicated) that divided France at the end of the 19th century over the innocence of Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer convicted—though later exonerated—of selling military secrets to the Germans. The new newspaper appointed Henri Desgrange as the editor. He was a prominent cyclist and owner with Victor Goddet of the velodrome at the Parc des Princes. De Dion knew him through his cycling reputation, through the books and cycling articles that he had written, and through press articles he had written for the Clément tyre company.
Prizes and bonuses are awarded for daily placings and final placings at the end of the race. In 2009, the winner received 450,000 euros, while each of the 21 stage winners won 8,000 euros (10,000 euros for the team time-trial stage). The winners of the points classification and mountains classification each win 25,000 euros, the young rider competition and the combativeness prize 20,000 euros, and 50,000 euros for the winner of the team classification.
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