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The 2005 Tour de France was the 92nd Tour de France, taking place from July 2 to July 24, 2005. It comprised 21 stages over 3607 km, the winner's average speed was 41.654 km/h.[1] The first stages were held in the département of the Vendée, for the third time in 12 years. The 2005 Tour was announced on October 28, 2004. It was a clockwise route, visiting the Alps before the Pyrenees. The 2005 Tour saw Lance Armstrong make history by winning the Tour for an unprecedented seventh time, all of which were won consecutively. The race was seen by 15 million spectators along the road, and by 2 billion viewers on tv.[2]
[edit] Route The traditional prologue on the first day was replaced by an individual time trial of more than twice the length of a standard prologue.[3] This stage crossed from the mainland of France to the Île de Noirmoutier. The most famous route to this island is the Passage du Gois, a road that is under water at high tide. This road was included in the 1999 Tour. Several of the favorites crashed there that year, and ended that stage 7 minutes behind the peloton. This year they took the bridge to the island. Later in the race, there was one more time trial, on the penultimate day. Also, there were just three uphill finishes (Courchevel, Ax-3 Domaines and Pla d'Adet), a lower number than in previous years. The finish line of the last stage was, as has been since 1975, on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. The Tour commemorated the death of Fabio Casartelli. During the 15th stage the riders passed the Col du Portet d'Aspet, where Casartelli died exactly 10 years earlier, in the 1995 Tour de France.[3] The Tour also commemorated the first time there was an official mountain climb in the Tour, the Ballon d'Alsace.[4] During the 9th stage this mountain was passed again, exactly 100 years after the first ascent in the Tour. [edit] Race detailsIn the prologue, David Zabriskie, a former team mate of Lance Armstrong, beat Armstrong by two seconds.[5] In the team time trial of stage 4, Zabriskie fell in the last kilometers, and Armstrong took over the lead.[5] Before the 20th stage, an individual time trial, Michael Rasmussen occupied the third place in the general classification. During that stage, Rasmussen fell multiple times and changed bicycles multiple times, and lost so much time that he ended up at the seventh place in the general classification.[5] The race jury invoked the 'rain rule'[6] for the Champs-Élysées, meaning that Lance Armstrong became the winner of the General classification the first time the race passed the finish line, rather than the eighth time as normal. The time bonification for the winner of the stage was still given, and Alexandre Vinokourov profited from this as he won the stage, and passed Levi Leipheimer in the general classification to end fifth. [edit] Podium favorites
[edit] StagesThe Tour de France was divided into 21 stages. These stages belong to different categories: 9 were flat stages, 3 were medium mountain stages, 6 were mountain stages, 2 were individual time trials and 1 was a team time trial.[4] The distinction between flat stage, medium mountain stage and mountain stage is important for the points classification. 
In the stages that were not time trials, there were intermediate sprints. Cyclist who crossed the intermediate sprints first received points for the points classification, and bonification seconds for the general classification. Until stage 8, there were three intermediate sprints, and from stage 9 on there were two.[7] [edit] Teams and ridersMain article: List of teams and cyclists in the 2005 Tour de France 189 riders in 21 teams commenced the 2005 Tour de France, 155 riders finished. Of the competitors in the 2005 Tour, the tallest rider was Johan Van Summeren at 1.98 metres and the shortest was Samuel Dumoulin at 1.58 metres. The heaviest rider was Magnus Bäckstedt at 95 kg, the lightest was Leonardo Piepoli at 57 kg. Christopher Horner and Laurent Lefevre shared the lowest resting heart rate, 35 beats per minute. The "average" rider in 2005 was 1.79 metres tall, weighed 71 kg, and had a resting heart rate of 50 beats per minute. [edit] Final standings
Óscar Pereiro was given the combativity award by the jury who chose him as the most attacking cyclist. [edit] Classification leadership progress
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