[Jack Hydrazine]

How does one win the TdF?

[DPMD]

By having the overall shortest cumulative time for all of the combined stages. It isn’t even necessary to win any single stage; just being consistent often works. One guy may win today, then finish way back tomorrow, in which case his poor time cancels out his good, winning time. Inconsistency is the enemy of the Tour competitor.

I’m not at all an expert in this, but one’s team helps a lot in protecting the star by keeping him constantly in a draft position among them until the best time for breaking out comes. Sometimes they break out and go for a win or good placing in the stage, sometimes they just play it safe. Someone else with experience in racing can offer more detailed explanations of how one wins the Tour, but that’s my observation.

[Poser]

“How does one win the TdF?”

Steroids, human growth hormone, blood doping, luck, skill endurance, teammates.

[Todd Kinsey]

The lowest cumulative over 3 weeks of racing, covering over 2260 miles and 1,000s of feet of climbing over some of the highest mountains in the world. Most consider it the toughest endurance race on the planet.