{"id":7865,"date":"2011-07-02T13:37:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T17:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=7865"},"modified":"2017-10-19T14:38:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:38:18","slug":"let-le-tour-de-france-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/let-le-tour-de-france-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Le Tour de France Begin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Le Tour de France a commenc\u00e9 !<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not a serious\u00a0<strong><em>cycliste<\/em><\/strong>, it can be hard to get excited about watching a\u00a0monthlong bike race, and it\u2019s also sometimes hard to find the Tour on <strong>TV<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Voici une solution au premier probl\u00e8me<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gaps.letour.fr\/fr.php\">Suivez le Tour de France en direct<\/a><\/em>. That\u00a0<em>lien <\/em>(link) should show the Tour &#8220;en direct&#8221; (live).<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<strong>Mais attendez!<\/strong>\u201d (<\/em>But wait!), you could say, &#8220;That\u00a0<strong><em>lien <\/em><\/strong>is\u00a0<em><strong>en fran\u00e7ais!<\/strong>\u201d <\/em>*<strong>So,\u00a0<em>voici le guide officiel du French Blog pour regarder le Tour de France!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">*<\/span> Official Guide of the French Blog for Watching the <em>Tour de France:<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>Le peloton<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: The pack of riders. Riders tend to stick together to fight wind resistance, with the best or most\u00a0<strong><em>ambitieux <\/em><\/strong>riders up front. The\u00a0<strong><em>peloton <\/em><\/strong>is likely to contain the riders you want to watch, even if some riders charge ahead to try to win the\u00a0<em>\u00e9tape<\/em>. \u00a0It\u2019s not uncommon for some guy to exhaust himself biking to win one\u00a0<strong><em>\u00e9tape<\/em><\/strong>, never to be seen again outside the\u00a0<em>peloton<\/em>. The smart money sticks with the pack until he\u2019s ready to take over.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>L\u2019\u00e9tape<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: The stage; the leg of the race covered on a given day.\u00a0<em><strong>Le Tour de France<\/strong> <\/em>is composed of 20\u00a0<em>\u00e9tapes<\/em>, of varied terrain. Each\u00a0<em>\u00e9tape <\/em>has a winner, who gets to start the next\u00a0<em>\u00e9tape<\/em>sporting..;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>Le maillot jaune<\/em>:<\/strong><\/span> The yellow jersey. Awarded to the rider who wins\u00a0<em>l\u2019\u00e9tape<\/em>, to be worn in the next\u00a0<em>\u00e9tape<\/em>. Yellow is also the color of the Tour de France\u2019s branding (which is why it sometimes looks like a tennis competition to me.)\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linternaute.com\/sport\/dossier\/cyclisme\/tour-de-france\/06\/diapo-maillots\/jaune.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"86\" height=\"95\" \/><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Le maillot vert<\/span>\/<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">blanc \u00e0 points rouges<\/span>\/blanc\/aux dossards de couleur <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">rouge <\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> The green\/ red polka dot\/ white\/ red-numbered jersey.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong><em>Le maillot vert<\/em><\/strong><\/span> goes to the best sprinter at any given time (<strong><em>points<\/em><\/strong><em>)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>b. <\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Le maillot blanc \u00e0 points rouges<\/em><\/strong> <\/span>goes to the best climber (reaches the top of the climbs first) (<strong><em>grimpeur<\/em><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li><em>c. <\/em><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong><em>Le maillot blanc<\/em><\/strong><\/span> is for the fastest rider under age 25 (as of\u00a0<em>1 janvier 2010) (<strong>jeune<\/strong>)<\/em>, and<\/li>\n<li><em>d. <\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Le maillot aux dossards rouges<\/em><\/strong><\/span> is for the most aggressive rider in each\u00a0<em>\u00e9tape (<strong>combatif<\/strong>)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>5. <\/em><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong><em>Le terrain<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: The terrain, which varies by\u00a0<em>\u00e9tape<\/em>: mountainous, hilly, cobblestoned, twisty&#8230;\u00a0<em>Cette carte <\/em>(this map) should give you an idea of where the geographic difficulties lie.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.letour.fr\/2011\/TDF\/img\/lacarte.jpg\" alt=\"Carte du Tour 2011\" width=\"495\" height=\"527\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But the greatest thing is, when watching the Tour de France,\u00a0<strong><em>vous faites un tour de France! <\/em><\/strong> You\u2019ll tour France by bike without paying a\u00a0<em>centime<\/em>\u2014<em>Le Tour <\/em>is a wonderful way to get a feel for\u00a0<em>le pays<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Suivez en direct le Tour de France !<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;\"><a><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Tour de France a commenc\u00e9 ! &nbsp; If you\u2019re not a serious\u00a0cycliste, it can be hard to get excited about watching a\u00a0monthlong bike race, and it\u2019s also sometimes hard to find the Tour on TV. Voici une solution au premier probl\u00e8me:\u00a0\u00a0Suivez le Tour de France en direct. That\u00a0lien (link) should show the Tour &#8220;en&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/let-le-tour-de-france-begin\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2149,55357,55355,55358,55354,55356,55353,2637],"class_list":["post-7865","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-france","tag-letape","tag-le-peloton","tag-le-terrain","tag-maillot-jaune","tag-maillot-vert","tag-tour-de-france","tag-world-cup"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7865"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28329,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865\/revisions\/28329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}