Daily moving on statistics
Lichtblick
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Logistics have always fascinated me, so I had a go at those of the TdF.
Every day (bar two), all these people have to move on. Every Day.
Riders: 198 started
Team entourages: managers, officials, soigneurs, coach drivers, car drivers, motorbike riders, chefs/cooks.
Publicity Caravan: 160 vehicles with crew of 600 +12 police +4 bikes +3 medical cars
The Media: rough average for all media 4,300 (figure from letour.fr)
Road barrier crews
Police Riders
Medics in cars and on bikes
Podium Girls
Commissars, marshals, officials, Bernard Hinault.
Any other category which I've left out.
This has to be the most fantastic and fantastically well organised moving event in history. Mind you, approaching their 100th, you'd expect them to have it well-oiled by now.
Every day (bar two), all these people have to move on. Every Day.
Riders: 198 started
Team entourages: managers, officials, soigneurs, coach drivers, car drivers, motorbike riders, chefs/cooks.
Publicity Caravan: 160 vehicles with crew of 600 +12 police +4 bikes +3 medical cars
The Media: rough average for all media 4,300 (figure from letour.fr)
Road barrier crews
Police Riders
Medics in cars and on bikes
Podium Girls
Commissars, marshals, officials, Bernard Hinault.
Any other category which I've left out.
This has to be the most fantastic and fantastically well organised moving event in history. Mind you, approaching their 100th, you'd expect them to have it well-oiled by now.
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Yeah it is pretty insane. When you are at a finish or start and you see the huge amount that is put up and taken down it is amazing. Like a small village.Contador is the Greatest0
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I'm sure I read the Tour 'circus' totals about 10,000 people! Insane to think they have to be accommodated every day for 3 weeks, with pretty much every night in a different town to the last.0
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I'm guessing that no-one else will get a hotel room within ~50 miles of each stage start/finish when the Tour is moving through. All booked up ? a year ahead?
I bet that annoys tourists who are unaware of these things, trying to plan their holidays.
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So much for cycling being a green way to travel! I've also wondered how much in the way of fumes etc those guys breathe in every day.Ecrasez l’infame0
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Saw the majority of the team cars on the autoroute after stage 17 and also one team bike on the road that had previously been on top of an FDJ car. Oops!0
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