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Know your peloton from your prix de combativité - check out our pictoral guide to the Tour's terminology
We chart the Tour's growth from the brainchild of a French journalist to a world-renowned sporting event
Yellow, green, polka-dot and black - we explain what each of the Tour's coloured jerseys represent
Start swotting up! We list every single prizewinner in the Tour de France since the first race in 1903
Texan Lance Armstrong dominated the Tour de France for seven years, winning every race between 1999-2005
'The Cannibal' from Belgium was perhaps the most complete and combative all-round rider in Tour history
He won five Tours de France in a row between 1991 and 1995, his powers of endurance becoming legendary
As hard as the granite coast of his native Brittany, Hinault is second only to Merckx on the list of all-time Tour greats
Greg LeMond's three Tour wins in 1986, 1989 and 1990 blazed a trail for American success at Le Tour
Get Ned Boulting, Chris Boardman and Matt Rendell's daily dose of Tour banter