Le Tour de Helmets, Part Deux

On July 4, the 96th Le Tour de France began. To date, the three week-long cycling competition has proven to be nothing less than exhilarating. Three-time world winner, American Greg LeMond, once said of the race, “It never gets easier, you just go faster.” This year is no different.

Hundreds of the world’s top cyclists have been competing in this rigorous, yet prestigious, 21-stage race – all in hopes of coming out on top. To view a detailed map of the race, check out this one at Versus.com. And, from unforeseen leaders in the race to accidents and pullouts, this year’s tour – covering Monaco, France, Spain, Andorra, Switzerland and Italy – is one for the books!

So who is currently on top, you ask? Rather than just tell you (especially considering you never know when someone could swoop ahead into the first place spot, we thought we’d provide you with a few resources for finding the best information available on the race. For up-to-the-minute information about the tour, there are many places you can go. On Twitter, for instance, you can receive as-it-happens updates by following the TdFblog author, Frank Steele (@TdFblog) or Cyclingfans.com’s Peter Geyer (@cyclingfans).

American favorite Lance Armstrong also periodically tweets updates about the race from his twitter account, @lancearmstrong. By following him, we were able to find out that, as of recently, this year’s top 20 cyclists were separated by only 6 minutes. That’s extremely rare this late in a race of such high caliber.

Can’t wait for people like Lance to update you on what they’re seeing with the race? Well then, watch live video coverage of the race by heading over to Cyclingfans.com, and you’ll be able to see who is well on their way to the final stage, first!

The race is almost over, and with just five days left, you don’t want to miss out on any of the action! Thankfully for you, you should now be fully equipped with resources so that you can stay on track with the cyclists.