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07-24-2006, 01:31 PM
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What is the purse for the Tour de France?
Is there a purse for the winner of the yellow? Team purse? Or is it a trophy and a pat on the back with a "good job" and a handshake and let the sponsors pay their cyclists?
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07-24-2006, 02:32 PM
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there is a purse, but it is not very large. Might be just under 1 million. get's split up between all team members and team.
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07-24-2006, 07:21 PM
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Last year Lance, as a good gesture, donated his entire portion of the purse to his teammates. It was less than 1 million, iirc. I think he'll be okay though. The $20 million Nike contract should keep him out of the soup kitchen for awhile.
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07-24-2006, 07:28 PM
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I think the winner got 400,000 euros in '05, with total prizes (stage wins, sprint bonuses, other jerseys, etc.) being around 3,000,000 euros.
Traditionally (butnot always) the yellow jersey winner splits up the purse with everybody.
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07-24-2006, 07:33 PM
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400k euro =~500k dollars Your exchange rate may vary. this is very rough.
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07-24-2006, 08:12 PM
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07-24-2006, 08:14 PM
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MBN, so you dated Meg Ryan's sister?
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