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2021 Route Digital Logistics Riders Medical Service Tv Broadcast Safety the Tour Commits Partners 09 Publicity Caravan La Course THE TOUR DE FRANCE IN FIGURES 2021 letour.fr/en / #TDF2021 / @letour 01 RIDERS support 184 riders 450 staff members 23 teams of 8 riders (team managers, assistants, mechanics…) 3,414.4 km 2021 ROUTE 02 (21 stages) flat8 hilly5 6mountain individual2 time stages stages stages trials Stage 5: Changé > Laval Espace Mayenne (27.2km) France and Stage 20: Libourne > Saint-Émilion the Principality (30.8km) 2 countries of Andorra SOMMET À 17,1 KM departments 27 mountain passes, 39 31 visited COL DU host towns climbs or summit TOURMALET finishes ranked as Category 2, HORS CATÉGORIE and cities regions 7,3 % Category 1 or hors catégorie including visited 10 new ones 9 municipalities visited in France and 757 the Principality of Andorra 249.1 km 108.4 km 2,408 m The length of stage 7 The length of stage 21 The height of the Port d’Envalira (Vierzon > Le Creusot) (Chatou > Paris Champs-Élysées), (Souvenir Henri Desgrange), the longest one of this the shortest mass-start stage the highest point in the 2021 edition of this edition Tour de France people living in Saint-Lary-Soulan, the smallest host town of 2,250,000 880 this edition people living in Paris, the biggest host city 03 SAFETY 300 29,000 law-enforcement officers 3,000 police officers, (Republican Guard, CRS, Mobile agents from the gendarmes and Gendarmerie and police detachments) Departmental firefighters deployed by deployed permanently for the entire Councils the Ministry of the Interior along Tour de France the entire route health 4,400 and safety warning signs 1,000 1 campaign placed at danger points people undergoing spread in the press, by the Assembly of French training and awareness- on the radio, on television Departments raising linked to and in digital media their jobs 04 MEDICAL SERVICE 7 2 1 1 ambulances medical medical radiology cars motorcycle truck 10 7 1 doctors nurses dedicated COVID task force (of all specialisations) (60 persons) with a mobile laboratory LOGISTICS 05 linear metres metres of high of barriers PORTIQUE DKM PORTIQUE DKM 6,000 15 KM 115 KM ,000 barriers at the finish 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM on average at the start, on the course 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM PORTIQUE DKM PORTIQUE DKM every day and at the finish of each stage 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 15 KM 3.3 km 450 7hectares of banners advertising panels needed on average in each stage on average set up at the finish to set up a Tour de France every day finish area 06 TV BROADCAST Official broadcasters Host Broadcast to 100 channels broadcaster countries of which 190 broadcasting 60 live All stages broadcast Close to 7,400 hours of live hours of live IN FULL coverage broadcasts 120 around the world (international signal) in 2020 Close to active users DIGITAL 07 1,000,000 2020 FIGURES of the official 2020 Tour de France app letour.fr Close to 14.5 million75 languages million unique 202 video views million on official 4 visitors page views supports social media 8,700,000 followers across all our @letour social media profiles @radiotour_fr @letour_de @radiotour_en / @letour_uk @letour_jpn @letour_col @radiotour_es / @letour_es Discover the NEW Follow the channels of the stats on Tour de France @tourdefrance @letourdefrance @letourdata registered players 192,960 in 2020 08 THE TOUR COMMITS “CYCLING CITY” LABEL LES P’TITS VÉLOS 1 VÉLO POUR TOUS (THE SMALL BIKES) (A BICYCLE FOR ALL) 80 30,000 600 towns and cities awarded children receiving support bicycles donated to charity the label in the first year every year every year 85% of the 89 sensitive natural 100% of carbon organisation’s Škoda car areas protected emissions attributable to NEW IN the organisation are offset 2021 fleet uses alternate fuels. 1 guidance programme 100% of single-use plastic and electric charging packagings eliminated from solutions the Caravan (except where 124 collection zones necessary for hygiene reasons) where riders can dispose of rubbish (5 to 8 depending on the stage) major PARTNERS 09 5 partners official11 official14 official2 technical5 institutional4 partners providers supporters partners partners 10 PUBLICITY CARAVAN 30 30 150 minutes brands 120 vehicles show logistics specialists & institutions and mechanics 10km people 480 convoy overseeing caravan 55 the caravan drivers 11 LA COURSE BY TOUR DE FRANCE AVEC FDJ lacoursebyletourdefrance.com @LaCoursebyTDF #LaCourse SATURDAY 26 JUNE for 107.7km 22 teams of 132 6 riders competitors climbs BREST LANDERNEAU • Côte de Trébéolin 2• Côte de la Fosse aux Loups to be climbed 4 times .
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