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nor was the difference between them the same They did in fact finish with the same time in this stage. If you take a look at the full classification for stage 6, you will see that this was a sprint ...

Simply, because there's no point It's a flat stage, so they can't gain time. If you look at the different stages, time differences between General Classification contenders tend to be achieved on ...

The official Best Climber Competition started in 1933. There was an unofficial ranking from 1905 to 1932 by the magazine Auto, but I couln't find these data. In 1966, Lucien Aimar (France) didn't even ...

Is it simply that he knows the position of every challenger for the jersey Precisely this. Everybody knew that none of the GC contenders were in the breakaway, so the teams were content to let them ...

When rules didn't specify that the rider had to finish the Tour, the Climber Jersey was awarded to Félicien Vervaecke (1937) even when he didn't finish the tour. After the last mountain in the ...

It is the body pack for the radio. The body pack contains the antenna (or more precisely, the antenna attachment), receiver, transmitter, microphone preamplifier, headphone amplifier, and all the ...

Essentially, no - riders race as individuals, the team is just for tactics and support and has no direct bearing on the results. The exception to this is the (now dropped from the Tour de France) team ...

In addition to Niall's good answer, I'd say: A specific rule of this step says that, because of the slippery pavement of the Champs-Elysées, when the weather is wet, race commissaries can decide that ...

I didn't find any occurrence of a climber abandoning at a final stage with a higher number of climbing points leaving the Red-Dotted jersey to the runner-up. However, I found some cases: In 2009, ...