Le Tour in England 2007 Trivia Quiz

Answer: 1994

The Tour went from Dover to Brighton on Stage 4 of the 1994 tour, and then went to Portsmouth and Hampshire on Stage 5. British rider Chris Boardman won the Prologue of the Tour in Lille, but had lost it by the time the Tour came to England. British rider Sean Yates also wore the Maillot Jaune in the 1994 tour, but by this time the race had left England. Spaniard Miguel Indurain powered to his 4th Tour win in this race.

Answer: 5

Saunier Duval rider David Millar and Cofidis' Bradley Wiggins were the two Brits from 2006 competing in 2007s race again, and joining them were Liquigas' Charles Wegelius, who had rode the Giro D'Italia before but not Le Tour, T-Mobile's Mark Cavendish, who had experienced many sprint successes in 2006, and Team Barloworld's Geraint Thomas. Thomas was also the youngest rider in the 2007 Tour.

Answer: Fabian Cancellara

Swiss rider Cancellara of the CSC team won the Prologue on the 7.9km stage in under 9 minutes. Second placed German rider Andreas Kloden, of the Astana-Wurth team, was about 13 seconds behind. George Hincapie of Discovery was third, followed closely by Londoner Bradley Wiggins. David Zabriskie, from Salt Lake City, Utah, had a slightly disappointing race, finishing 11th despite winning the Dauphine Libere prologue earlier in the year.

Answer: Vladimir Gusev

Gusev, who won the Tour of Belgium in 2007, won the jersey after a very impressive Prologue riding for the Discovery team. Thomas Dekker, representing Rabobank, was second in this competition after the Prologue, with Contador 4th, also with Discovery, and Bonnet 5th for Credit Agricole.

Answer: Stuart O'Grady

O'Grady, 33, had worn the Maillot Jaune in previous Tour's, but had probably blown his chances of wearing it in 2007 after a crash in the Prologue stage. He had gone through the previous time-check in first place of those riders who had already gone through, so he looked like he would put in a good time.

Answer: Astana-Wurth

The Astana team led by Kazakh Alexander Vinokourov were the team in the lead in the Team Classification at the end of the Prologue, mainly down to the performances of Andreas Kloden and Vinokourov in the Prologue. Cancellara's CSC team finished second, whilst Hincapie and Gusev helped Discovery into third place at this early stage of the Tour.

Answer: David Millar

Millar, who finished in the top 20 in the Prologue, was looking to pick up a few time bonuses and some prestige at being the leader of the race in England. He was only ever provisional leader in Stage 1 though, after being caught well before the end of the stage. Nevertheless, time bonuses ensured that he moved up to 3rd place by the end of this stage.

Answer: David De La Fuente

Grivko was looking to pick up a stage win for the Milram team, and Bichot and Auge may have been looking to become the King of the Mountains after the first stage. However, Millar pipped them both to the post, with the help of teammate David De La Fuente, who held the polka dot jersey for a short period in 2006s Tour.

Answer: Robbie McEwen

McEwen easily took the stage win ahead of Thor Hushovd in second place and Tom Boonen in third, after the latter two sprinters mis-timed their attacks. The victory was especially remarkable as McEwen had been involved in a crash with about 20km to go in the stage, and he had to be helped back to the peloton by team members in his Predictor-Lotto team.

The same crash also saw British hopeful Mark Cavendish ruled out of contention for a stage win on home soil.

Answer: No one

Because of the ongoing fallout from last year's Tour involving Floyd Landis, no one had been allocated the number 1, as Landis' Phonak team are not involved in the Tour. Pereiro's Caisse D'Epargne team have been given the numbers 11-19, and Pereiro was the last rider to ride the Prologue, having finished second in the Tour in 2006.