The Tour de France is undoubtedly the biggest bike race in the world and here is why – the race in numbers!
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Number 1 favourite, Kenyan born British rider Chris Froome.
4,500 people: organisation – teams
– media – partners – publicity caravan
– service providers
Riders
198 riders at the start (22 teams of 9 riders)
300 support personnel
17 members on the stewards’ committee
Route in 2013
3404 kilometres (21 stages)
36 stage towns
537 French municipalities crossed
37 French departments visited
Organisation
100 permanent staff of A.S.O.
280 temporary staff
1450 beds reserved every day for the organisers and teams
Medical Service
10 emergency doctors, 1 anaesthetics nurse
6 ambulances, 2 medical cars, 1 motorcycle, 1 X-ray truck
Security
47 police motorcyclists
13 police officers (permanent police mission for the Tour)
23,000 officers from the various police divisions mobilised
1,000 General Council agents
Media (2012 edition)
2,000 journalists, consultants, photographers
560 different media covering the race
350 newspapers/magazines, press agencies or websites
85 TV channels, of which 60 broadcast live
75 photo agencies
50 radio stations
TV broadcasting
Broadcasts to 190 countries
Around 100 channels, 60 of them broadcasting live
New national stations broadcasting live: Estonia (ETV), Israel (Sport5), Kazakhstan (KAZsport)
New regional broadcaster (Middle East and North Africa): Aljazeera Sport (23 countries)
9 stages broadcast in full
86 hours of live footage (international signal)
Over 5,000 hours of programmes worldwide
3.5 billion viewers worldwide (2012)
Internet (2012 edition)
11.5 million unique visitors hits (in July)
133 million pages viewed (in July)
4 languages: French, German, Spanish, English (the most visited version)
925,000 fans on Facebook
150,000 followers on Twitter
800,000 apps on the Tour de France downloaded
Partners
44 partner brands including 4 new partners
4 Club Partners
9 Official Partners
6 Institutional and Environmental Partners
2 Media Partners
14 Official Suppliers
6 Technical Partners
7 Official Sponsors
Publicity Caravan
180 vehicles
37 brands
600 people
14.5 million gifts handed out
12 kilometres of precession
35 minutes of show-time
54 people involved in supervision including 13 police officers
Spectators lining the route (2012 edition)
12 million spectators
68% men and 32% women
53% under 50 years of age, of which 12% were under 25
80% French spectators and 20% foreign spectators
38 different nationalities counted
6 hrs 50 minutes of presence at the road-sire (6 hrs for flat stages, 8 hrs 50 minutes for mountain stages)
92% of people come with family or friends (in groups of 4 to 5 people on average)
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