→ The 1973 Tour de France was the 60th edition of the, one of cycling's. It took place between 30 June and 22 July, with 20 stages covering a distance of 4,090 km (2,541 mi)., winner of the previous four editions, did not start the 1973 Tour, partly to avoid angry French fans and partly to please his sponsor; instead he rode and won the and the. In his absence, dominated the race, winning with a margin of more than 15 minutes.
In 1973, a new was added: the team points classification, calculated by adding the three best stage rankings per team; it would be calculated until 1988. The finish of stage 1a in, Netherlands, won by Zoetemelk won the opening prologue, one second ahead of Poulidor. In the first part of the next stage, Teirlinck won and took over the lead. Ocana and fell down when a dog crossed the road, but both suffered no serious damage.
In the second part of that stage, Van Springel bridged the gap to Catieau, who had escaped. Van Springel did all the work to stay away, while Catieau did not help his team captain's rival. They stayed away until the end of the stage, where Catieau won the sprint, and Van Springel became the new race leader. In the third stage, a group with Guimard and Ocana escaped.
Van Springel, Zoetemelk, Fuentes, Thevenet and Poulidor were not in that group, and had to chase them. The group stayed away, Guimard won the sprint and Catieau became the race leader.
More important for the final result was that Ocana won more than two minutes on Zoetemelk, and more than seven minutes on Fuente. In stage seven, when the first mountains were climbed, Ocana attacked, and only Zoetemelk could follow. A few kilometers from the summit, Zoetemelk had to let Ocana go, and Ocana finished solo. Ocana became the new race leader, almost three minutes ahead of Zoetemelk. In the eighth stage, Ocana and Fuente both attacked.
Ocana and Fuente did not like each other, and when Fuente stopped working, Ocana was angry, especially when Fuente passed him just before the top of the Izoard to steal the points for the mountain classification. When Fuente had a flat tire, Ocana did not wait for him, and left him behind, beating him by one minute at the finish line. All the others were far behind: Thevenet and Martinez followed after seven minutes, the other pre-race favourites after twenty minutes.
In the thirteenth stage, Poulidor crashed, and was taken away with a helicopter. In the sixteenth stage, the cyclists were slower than expected, and finished one hour after the latest time schedule. The train that they should have taken had already left, and they had to use buses. In the time trial in stage 17, Fuente lost his second place in the general classification to Thevenet. Fuente tried to take it back in the mountain stage 18, but he failed and even lost some time.
Doping Three cyclists tested positive during the 1973 Tour de France:., after the 9th stage., after the 13th stage., after the 18th stage All three received a fine of 1000 Swiss Francs, one-month suspension and ten minutes penalty time in the general classification. Opmanager user guide. Classification leadership There were several classifications in the 1973 Tour de France, three of them awarding to their leaders. The most important was the, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage.
The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey; the winner of this classification is considered the winner of the Tour. Additionally, there was a, where cyclists got points for finishing among the best in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and was identified with a green jersey. There was also a.
The organisation had categorized some climbs as either first, second, third, or fourth-category; points for this classification were won by the first cyclists that reached the top of these climbs first, with more points available for the higher-categorized climbs. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, but was not identified with a jersey in 1973. Another classification was the. This classification was calculated as a combination of the other classifications, its leader wore the white jersey. The fifth individual classification was the. This classification had similar rules as the points classification, but only points were awarded on intermediate sprints.
In 1973, this classification had no associated jersey. For the, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team was the team with the lowest total time. The riders in the team that lead this classification wore yellow caps. The was given to Luis Ocana.
For a more comprehensive list, see. In response to the finish of the, French minister of sports objected to the amount of advertising in the race, and suggested the Tour to return to the national team format. The Tour organisation needed the money brought in by the sponsors, and no changes were made to the team structure.
The Tour organisation decided to start with 17 teams, each with 10 cyclists, for a total of 170, a new record. Tour director suggested to reduce the number of cyclists by starting with teams of 9 cyclists, but this was rejected. Teams could submit a request to join until 15 May 1982. To promote cycling in the United States of America, the American national cycling team would automatically be accepted, but the American team made no request. The teams entering the race were. Pre-race favourites Hinault, who had won the Tour in 1978, 1979 and 1981, and left the 1980 Tour in leading position, was the clear favourite for the victory.
In those other years, Hinault had won several races before the Tour, but in 1982 he had only won one major race, the. Hinault tried to be the fourth cyclist, after, and, to win the Giro-Tour double. Notable absent was, who was second in the, winning the mountains classification. Since the, Van Impe had started each edition, winning the general classification in the 1976 Tour and the mountains classification five times. Van Impe wanted to join, but his team Metauro was not invited, as the organisation considered it not strong enough to ride both the Giro and the Tour. Van Impe tried to find a team to hire him only for the 1982 Tour, but was not successful.
Route and stages The 1982 Tour de France started on 2 July, and had two rest days, in Lille and Martigues. Team classification Final team classification (1–6) Rank Team Time 1 377h 25' 33' 2 + 14' 01' 3 + 26' 46' 4 + 55' 33' 5 + 1h 15' 21' 6 + 1h 43' 41' Aftermath Hinault's victory in 1982 is considered as the most effortless Tour victory in his career. During the 1982 Tour de France, the Tour organisation was impressed by the global audience that the reached, and they made plans to develop the Tour into a World Cup format, run every four years, where teams from all over the earth would compete against each other. The main part of the race would be in France, but more other countries would be visited; it was discussed to start the Tour in New York.
The 1983 Tour de France was still run in the familiar format in France, but it was open to amateur teams, although only one Colombian accepted the invitation. References.
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. Pre-race favourites Favorites for the race included 2008 winner, 2007 winner, winner and two time runner-up. Came out of retirement and competed in the race on the same team as Contador.
Menchov and Evans performed far below the levels expected of them, finishing 51st and 30th respectively, and Sastre only showed briefly among the leaders on the mountain stages that would have provided his best chance of making a bid for victory, coming 17th overall., the team leader of, was not selected by his team for the, because the race travelled through Italy on stage 16 and he had received a ban in May 2009 from the Italian Olympic Committee, prohibiting him from competing in Italy. He had finished in the top ten of the general classification of the Tour in the two previous years and was considered one of the favourites for overall victory.
News about a positive retest of a 2007 out-of-competition control concerning broke three days before the start; his team immediately withdrew him from the starting list. Wearing the and wearing the during the Tour The race started in Monaco with a 15 kilometres (9.3 mi), won by Olympic champion, who retained the yellow jersey as leader of the throughout the first week, which was dominated by stages suited primarily to sprinters, with establishing himself as the strongest finisher. The significant action of the first week in relation to the overall classification was restricted to a split in the field on stage 3, and a team time trial the following day. The second weekend saw the Tour in the, and the first attack on the field by eventual winner, while the leadership was taken over. Showed an ability to take points in stages that did not include flat sprint finishes that would be key to the contest for the, and the main contenders for the emerged.
The journey towards the the following week had a second pair of successive stage wins for Cavendish and a series of wins from riders in breakaways that held no threat to the general classification. An infringement in the sprint finish to stage 14 saw Cavendish relegated in finishing position, and Hushovd gaining the upper hand in the.
The first alpine stage was the occasion of Contador's assumption of the race leadership, and the emergence of as the only rider likely to challenge him in the mountains, and as the top young rider, giving Schleck the right to wear the white jersey. Focussed on collecting points on the climbs early in stages to overhaul in the race for the, without threatening the race leaders.
By the end of the three stages in the Alps, and after Contador's victory in the final time trial, it was only the minor placings that were realistically under question in the last mountain stage, held for the first time on the penultimate day of the tour on. The introduced a ban on radio communication between team management and riders on stage 10, but the riders responded with a conservative style of racing for most of the stage and the intended repetition of the experiment on stage 13 was abandoned. At the victory ceremony, the was mistakenly played instead of that of. Contador described the incident as an 'enormous blunder' at a post-Tour press conference in Madrid. At the victory ceremony for teams, the anthem of Spain was yet played, because Contador was part of the winning team, Astana. Doping In the 2009 Tour, Doping controls were conducted by the UCI, with the French body AFLD shadowing the process. Officials targeted top riders like Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador with an unprecedented amount of tests.
While the Armstrong-Contador conflict ruled the headlines, reporting on doping rather took a back seat during the race. The news that Giro runner-up Danilo Di Luca had a positive A probe in the Giro did not change that.
Five days after the race finished the UCI announced that the initial Stage 16 winner tested positive for EPO in an out-of-competition test on 26 June, eight days before the race started. Later, Astarloza was removed from the results, and the stage win transferred to. Just days before the, 2009 Giro podium finisher and King of the Mountains winner in this Tour was announced by the UCI as a rider of interest in their program. He was sidelined by his team, and did not race again in 2010.
Karl Bartos
The case was not fully resolved until March 2011, at which time the ordered Pellizotti banned for two years, to pay a fine and court costs, and have all his 2009 results vacated. In October 2012, Lance Armstrong had all his results post 1998, including the 2009 Tour, voided by the UCI following the USADA investigation into systematic doping. On 10 July 2014, a UCI press release detailing various athlete sanctions specified that Menchov had been banned (for a period of two years) until 9 April 2015 due to adverse biological passport findings. Due to this, he has been disqualified from the 2009, 2010 and 2012 Tours de France. Classification leadership Classification leadership by stage Stage Winner no award no award. no award Final. After stage 1, was leading both the general and the points classifications.
Florian Schneider
In stage 2, he wore the yellow jersey. Was placed second at the time in the green jersey points classification, but was the leader in the king of the mountains classification, and so forfeited the right to wear the green jersey. As a result, the third placed rider in the opening time trial, wore the green jersey on stage 2. Stage 16 was originally won by, who was found after the Tour to have tested positive for EPO before the race had started. The organisers have stripped him of the stage win, and former number two became the official winner.
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