Sunday, November 14, 2010
Is the Tour de France too hard?
Interesting analysis over at The Inner Ring on this topic.
Bike Race Info shows the numbers of finishers over the years that the Tour de France was held, yielding these figures for recent years:
1995 - 61%
1996 - 68%
1997 - 70%
1998 - 51%
1999 - 78%
2000 - 71%
2001 - 76%
2002 - 81 %
2003 - 78 %
2004 - 78 %
2005 - 82 %
2006 - 79 %
2007 - 75 %
2008 - 81 %
2009 - 87 %
2010 - 86 %
So on average for the last decade, for every 187 starters that begin the Tour de France, 80% of the riders finish in Paris, while 37 riders drop out along the way.
Labels: attrition
