The Tour de France Explained | Everything You Need To Know About The Biggest Bike Race In The World

The Tour de France is, quite simply, the biggest bike race in the world. Spread across 3 weeks every summer, Le Tour sees the fastest professional cyclists in the world race around France in a bid to take home the most iconic prize in cycling: the Yellow Jersey. With a different winner every day, and 4 different leaders jerseys changing hands throughout the race, it can be confusing to know what’s going on. So sit back, relax, and enjoy our beginners guide to the Tour de France. Whether you’re new to watching bike racing, or just need a bit of a refresher, this is the video for you!

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[gcn]

What's your favourite thing about the Tour de France? Will this be the first time you've watched the race? Let us know in the comments below!

[pegitamg]

This race has had a huge impact on my marriage. My husband loves to ride and watched every episode religiously. Each day there were 3 or more hours of tape to watch and he did! It's hard to be in the middle of this situation and realize you share your husband with 200 people ( the number of riders usually) so I started listening while he watched. It was really hard to catch on to but I stuck with it and was able to enjoy it literally right next to him. Then I started to pick up on the language and manuveres and could understand why certain moves were so important to the understanding of the whole race. I can now 37 years later discuss it with him and share my insights. This race was the "other woman" in my marriage!

[johnmac]

simply explained with minimal jargon .. perfect for newbies .. nicely done

[manuel]

Why am I watching this after having followed 25 consecutive years of pro cycling

[FaB]

"How to get your friends into cycling?" - Just let Jeremy talk to them for 2 minutes and they will see it's the key to happiness :D

[tungruffel]

This guy always looks so happy and it makes me happy! Can we keep him?

[kennethdayman]

Great video! Would love to see a video for intermediate race watchers. How do team strategies work? Working for different riders, how do the domestiques become successful, what are different sorts of tactics to look out for, what more is there to racing than pedal hard eyeballs out the whole time?

[kiranvputhettu]

This guy should have been my tutor in school 😂

[redbeardsbirds]

I basically went from knowing almost nothing about the Tour de France to being totally "hooked" on watching this great BIG TEST of stamina and teamwork...it takes more than just riding...it's also about strategy and helping your team finish as winners. Thank so much for this nice introductory video!

[juliewerner]

I finally understand what’s going on in the Tour, Looking forward to watching it on the GCN app. Best explanation ever, thanks so much from a very new bike rider in Australia.👌

[MegaNastyHabits]

I've been watching every televised minute of the Tour since 1989. My favorite thing about the tour are the battles on the mountain stages. Although I first was made aware of the the Tour when I read a book by Stirling Moss. There used to be a Tour de France for sports cars. In the book Sir Stirling said that one year, the car race was paused so the bike race could pass by uninterrupted.

[neilaquino]

I'm a sprinter by heart but that polka dot jersey is my favorite jersey. 🥰

[johannesglintborg-mikkelse]

“No one can win the tour on their own”
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[reecemossvlogs]

First time I'm looking forward to the tour de France, hope its going to be a good one!!!

[mosesbuddhajesus]

I wish Jeremy will star in more videos in the future! I love this guy, anyone else think so?

[ChristianMercadoAcevedo]

As a newbie who has always been lost by competitive sports, this video is a godsent.

[superjan]

I started watching cycling like a month ago and this video helped me a lot, thank you.

[nathantang]

Absolute quality from J pow. I might not like everything from GCN but this video is well explained and not easy to find.

[Lulikmaid]

Great video! But it took all the fun out of asking my husband random questions while he watches the tour 😂

[stevecheng]

"Team work makes the dream work". Great quote.