Tour de France apps and sites that help you stay in the race
While most of the Tour de France is easily viewable on TV, some prefer to explore the stages more deeply. This interest is driving a 55 percent increase in people tuning into the world's best-known bike race on second screens—think mobile phones. Here are three ways to tap into every tiny detail about the 2018 Tour de France through social media, smartphone apps, and the web.
Skoda Tour Tracker
The Skoda Tour Tracker is one way to access live coverage of the race, along with overall standings, results from each stage, and details on each day's ride, such as the number of kilometers riders will bike.
The race, which started July 7 in Western France, finishes, as with tradition in the Champs-Élysées in Paris on July 29. Anyone with an iOS or Android device can tap in — and even follow riders, particularly the peloton, through GPS tracking on a map. You're also supposed to be able to toss the streaming video to your TV with both Airplay and Chromecast. However, reviewers are already claiming the Google Chromecast feature isn't working.
Still, that won't stop you from checking in who has won the maillot jaune for the day. Users can even set push notifications so they can know when it's time to start watching.
Social Media
The official Tour de France Twitter account has nearly 3 million followers, posting photos from the stages. For those serious fans, you can also follow teams like TeamSky and riders, including Chris Froome, Mark Cavendish, or Fernando Gaviria.
The official Le Tour de France page on Facebook posts daily videos and photos about specific stages. Team pages, including Team Lotto and UAE Team Emirates, are also on Facebook.
Web site
Of course, there are tons of details on the official web for Le Tour de France, from interactive maps to the height of each mountain pass. You can see who is wearing each jersey, whether it's for best climber to best young rider, their points, the full rankings — and who has even dropped out from the race already.
Want to hear directly from Fernando Gaviria? There's an interview of how he felt winning the yellow jersey, along with tactics Peter Sagan and his teammates took — in his own words. He has an interview in which he describes and discusses
Fans of the Tour de France don't have to head to Europe to get moment-by-moment details about their favorite race. Whether tapping in from a work computer, TV, or their iOS or Android smartphone — every turn, climb, and sprint can now be gleaned all from the device they keep in their pocket, wherever they are.
