Vive le teamwork!After completing all 21 stages of the greatest cycling race in the world, the riders have travelled 3,529 km through Switzerland, France, Spain, and Andorra to complete the 103rd Tour de France this year.

Here’s a look at some of the stories powered by data we’ve collected on their dramatic journey to the finish line in Paris and … why it takes a team to win the Tour.

Stages 1-21

Individual team members beat the clock

Journey of the Yellow Jersey

Our team’s mobile office

The big data truck is parked in the Tour de France technical zone and is where our technical and social media teams worked every day of the event.

Teams can conquer mountains

Surviving the Alps

average climbing speed of all riders in the Alps

Froome’s (SKY) average climbing speed in the Alps

average climbing speed of slowest rider in the Alps

59’ 23” slower than Froome (SKY)

Working together, the 22 teams representing13 nationalities and 5 continents have conquered:

Slowest stage(stage 18)

29.58 km/h

Fastest stage(stage 11)

46.65 km/hhighest average speed of all riders on a stage

average speed of all riders

Teamwork beats the rest

Average speed on each stage by classification

8,500 m total elevation of categorised climbs in the Alps

24.05 km/h

26.35 km/h

21.59 km

Stage 13 Stage 18

Froome (SKY) outperformed Dumoulin (TGA) by 1.13%

39.87 km/h

17 km

fastest average speedof winner

distance travelled (mountain)

Christopher Froome (SKY)

37.5 km

44.78 km/h

distance travelled (flat)

Dumoulin (TGA) outperformed Froome (SKY) by 3.92%

fastest average speedof winner

Tom Dumoulin (TGA)

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38.23 km/h average time-trial speed of Romain Bardet (ALM)

Teams face danger together… the dreaded descents

The stragglers are faster than the peloton – they generally descend faster than the other groups, who have more to lose.

Danger of descents = crashes

Teams go faster, together

Michael Matthews, Daryl Impey and Luc de Bridge from Orica-BikeExchange (OBE)

Matthews (OBE) won the stage

Sprint finishes

The final sprint to Paris

3 photo finishes

Best young rider

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How the elements affect the speed on a stage

38.5% of stages ending in bunch sprint

Peloton 4% faster on average than the breakaway

in previous 50 km

15 km from finish line – average point where the break is caught on flat stages

total distance travelled

total hours spent on the road

4,892.5 km 80 hours

22 people

12 collaboration tools

10 TV screens

10 desks 20 chairs

12,600 m of cables rolled out over 21 stages

1 kitchenette

127,8 million total data records processed in the cloud

24-hour testing and development cycle so the solution kept up with the race

1 hail storm 3 rain-drenched finishes 80 km/h winds 1 sweltering day of 35˚C

175 riders still in the race(a new Tour de France record for highest number of finishers)

38.34 km/h average speed of ridersacross 21 stages

39.6 km/h average speed

39.586 km/h average speed

faster than runner-up

Christopher Froome (SKY) 89h 06’ 01’’

Romain Bardet (ALM)

Fastest and slowest teams

There are other ways to achieve glory in the Tour de France.Team Dimension Data is ranked 22 overall but has won 5 stages.

Slow and steady wins in this race

Teams Time Gap Averagespeed km/h

1 Movistar Team 267h 20’ 45’ 39.60

2 Team Sky 267h 28’ 59’’ + 08’ 14’’ 39.58

3 BMC Racing Team 268h 08’ 56’’ + 48’ 11’’ 39.48

20 Fortuneo-Vital Concept 273h 34’ 03’’ + 06h 13’ 18’’ 38.70

21 Lotto Soudal 274h 16' 50'' + 06h 56’ 05’’ 38.60

22 Team Dimension Data 274h 38’ 57’’ + 07h 18’ 12’’ 38.55

Distance riders have climbed over3 days in the Alps versus the rest of the Tour

03’ 31”time gained by Yellow Jersey just in individual time trials versus runner up, in the General Classification, Bardet (ALM)

Froome’s show on the Col de Peyresourde

% time spent in Yellow Jersey group

Preparing the sprintOn every flat stage, the peloton caught the breakaway to make sure the stage finished in a bunch sprint.

When the break gets away with it Stage 10: Peloton tried to catch break but didn’t succeed

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Hail on the final climb

43.5 km downhill

Strong headwinds

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between Mark Cavendish (DDD) and Andre Greipel (LTS)

Stage 3

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finish line

between Marcel Kittel (EQS) and Bryan Coquard (DEN)

Stage 4

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65 km/hspeed across the

finish line

between Peter Sagan (TNK) and Alexander Kristoff (KAT)

Stage 16

If the peloton only had 30 riders, on average 7 would be from Team Sky.

Stage 8

Sets Froome up for his downhill attack on the descent of Col de Peyresourde.

Stage 9

Dominates with 7 riders out of 34 in the lead at the penultimate climb.

Stage 12

Keeps control on Mont Ventoux.

Stage 16

Tackles final week of the race with all 9 riders remaining.

Stage 11

Positions Froome perfectly to react to Sagan’s (TNK) attack on the last 12 km.

Stage 17

Poels (SKY) responds and controls every attack on the Finhaut-Emosson.

Stage 15

Annihilatesevery attack.

Stage 21

Froome cruises to Yellow Jersey victory with the support of his team.

Stages 19 and 20

Sets Froome up for Paris finalé despite crash.

14.88 km/haverage speed on the climb

Toughest mountain climb in the AlpsFinhaut-Emosson | stage 17 | 10.4 km at 8.4% gradient

Final km hardest at 12.3% gradient53 C recorded at one point on the climb˚

Individual time trials

Stage 12 Gerrans (OBE)

Speed of the rider 56 km/h

Broken collarbone

Col des Trois Termes

Stage 17

Bozic (COF)

Speed of the rider 74 km/h Multiple wounds

and abrasions

Col des Mosses

Stage 19

Froome (SKY)

Speed of the rider 45 km/h

Abrasions and cuts

Domancy

Stage 19

Navarro (COF)

Speed of the rider 47 km/h

Broken shoulder

Domancy

Alps Rest of the Tour

267 km 118 km

Highest recorded average speed on a descent

69.31 km/h Kittel (EQS)

Col du Tourmalet (stage 8) 51.54 km/h

Average speed of riders on all descents  

Fastest overall descents by rider group

Col de la Forclaz – 5.4% (stage 17)  68.21 km/h | Breakaway 63.94 km/h | Yellow Jersey group 66.43 km/h | Stragglers

Horquette d’Ancizan – 7.5% (stage 8)  60.98 km/h | Breakaway 58.67 km/h | Yellow Jersey group 59.05 km/h | Stragglers

Col du Tourmalet – 6.8% (stage 8)  62.41 km/h | Breakaway 62.71 km/h | Yellow Jersey group 65.15 km/h | Stragglers

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59 categorised climbs with

4 summit finishes

3photo finishes(stages 3, 4, and 16)

individualtime trials

05h 59’ 54’’ longest time in the saddle(stage 3)

168 km average distance travelled each day(stages 1-21)

Froome (SKY) hit a top speed of 91 km/h and gained 13"

Riding through the Alps(distance versus % time spent)

Climbing FlatsDescents

118 km

106 km

270 km 55%

12%

33%

Stage winner: Andre Greipel (LTS)

64.5 km/h top speed in sprint to the finish line

1 André Greipel (LTS)

2 Peter Sagan (TNK)

3 Alexander Kristoff (KAT)