Tour de France winners
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Order by the year each rider won the Tour de France for the first time. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Tour de France winners
Order by the year each rider won the Tour de France for the first time. You place all 40 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
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release years and dates
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How the Tour de France winners timeline game works
You're ordering Tour de France champions by the year they first won the race. Each rider's card shows his nationality, and often a nickname, under his name. One champion is placed before you begin, year in view. Look at each new rider and set him in the gap you think is right. Get it and his year appears. Miss it and he still goes to his true position, but that mistake takes one of your three lives.
The roll call starts with the pioneers of the first Tours and carries on past the wars that interrupted the race into the modern peloton. Multiple winners appear only at their first victory, which matters for riders who dominated for several summers. Nationality narrows things less than you'd think, since the great cycling nations have produced winners again and again. The quiet one-time winners between the famous dynasties are the ones that catch people out.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Maurice Garin French, The Little Chimney Sweep
- Lucien Petit-Breton French, raised in Argentina
- Philippe Thys Belgian
- Ottavio Bottecchia Italian
- Nicolas Frantz Luxembourgish, The Dyer
- Sylvère Maes Belgian
- Gino Bartali Italian, Gino the Pious
- Fausto Coppi Italian, Il Campionissimo
- Hugo Koblet Swiss, The Charming Pedaler
- Louison Bobet French, The Baker from Saint-Méen
- Charly Gaul Luxembourgish, Angel of the Mountains
- Federico Bahamontes Spanish, The Eagle of Toledo
- Jan Janssen Dutch
- Eddy Merckx Belgian, The Cannibal
- Bernard Thévenet French
- Lucien Van Impe Belgian
- Bernard Hinault French, The Badger
- Laurent Fignon French, The Professor
- Greg LeMond American
- Miguel Induráin Spanish, Big Mig
- Bjarne Riis Danish
- Marco Pantani Italian, The Pirate
- Alberto Contador Spanish, El Pistolero
- Cadel Evans Australian
- Chris Froome British, born in Kenya
- Vincenzo Nibali Italian, The Shark of Messina
- Egan Bernal Colombian
- Tadej Pogačar Slovenian
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