I need help with a Tour de France assignment

Question

Just 2 questions:

1. How many NEW teams started in the 2008 Tour de France.

2. I need the results of 3 stages, the stage number, the start and finish point, the malliot Jaune holder at the time, whether it's a mountain or plain stage, and 2 interesting features of the stage.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Tour de France official website:

http://www.letour.fr/2008/TDF/LIVE/us/21...

Answer 2

try

www.versus.com/tdf/

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_Fra...

This site will tell you all about Le tour de France, stages, riders, jerseys, and doping allegations.

If you wana know more about what the jerseys represents, scroll down to the bottom, and you will notice it.

If you have any questions e-mail me.

Answer 4

Team Columbia

Team Garmin-Chipotle

Stage 14 - Nimes - Digne-les-bains (flat), Oscar Freire won, Cadel Evans Maillot Jaune, best sprinter lost contact with the bunch (Mark Cavendish), Oscar Freire won his first stage whil holding the green jersey

Stage 1 - Brest - Plumelec (flat), Alejandro Valverde won, Alejandro Valverde took te Maillot jaune, first time for 40 years the tour has not started with a time trial, juan mauricio soler crashed and lost 2 minutes.

Stage 10 - Pau - Hautacam (mountain), Leonardo Piepoli won, Cadel Evans took maillot jaune from Kim Kirchen, Team Saunier Duval did a 1-2 finish (Piepoli and Cobo), first 'real' mountain top finish of the tour