A few stats to give you an idea of the scale of this year’s Tour de France and its media following:
• 3460 km of racing
• 39 different start/finish town stages
• broadcast in 186 countries
• 450 journalists
• 121 TV stations covering the event, of which 60 do so live, with 260 cameramen working on motorcycles, in helicopters and at the finish line.
• 72 radio stations
• 350 authorised newspapers and photo agencies with 240 photographers
• 2400 vehicles on course (organisation, media, publicity caravan, etc.)
• 4000 support crew
An animated presentation of the above picture at 1’50″ onwards in this video.
An interesting read HERE from Cycling Tips.
