Keep up with the Tour de France on your Nokia Lumia

Published by Boc Ly on July 17, 2012

Tour de France

There’s no denying that the Tour de France is never boring.

There are spectacular crashes, the constant whiff of doping scandals and the stunning images from the final day when hundreds of riders cycle along the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

However, enthusiasts will tell you it is also one of the most gruelling sporting events in the world and the ultimate test of human endurance.

‘Le Tour’ covers approximately 3,200km (2,000 miles) in three weeks over mountainous terrain and all weather conditions.

As the Tour de France 2012 enters the crucial final week, we have selected three apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace for your Nokia Lumia to ensure that you are never far away from the action.

Le Tour, FREE

This app is a great place to start for newcomers to ‘Le Tour’ as well as seasoned followers.

It gives an overview of each of the stages, current standings, a #tdf ‘tweets’ news hub and results as they come in.

Everything Cycling, FREE

Not a specific app for the Tour de France, but indispensable for serious cycling fans. 

Get the latest from the Tour de France in the form of feeds from Cycling News and VeloNews. It also allows you to filter information, for example, you can search for your favourite cyclist or by subject.

MetroTour, £0.79p 

MetroTour

This is a dedicated app for the Tour de France that looks good, is easy to use and has lots of information. 

It has the latest standings, a live Twitter feed, a database, which can be accessed offline, about the stages, riders, teams and even includes historical information about the Tour de France.

The latest version of the app lets you pin categories to your Lumia home screen.

Image credit: digitalO

Comments

  • snoflake

    Genius – you publish this with under a week left of the Tour and probably only two decisive stages left.

    I actually searched Marketplace in the preceeding 2 weeks for boith “TdF”and “Tour de France” and turned up nothing other than one very amateur entry. So either the store discoverability is remaining very poor (I’ve had problems and it has widely been noted elsewhere MNB etc. particularly poor is the fuzzy logic) or these apps have been entered or passed for the store well after the commencement of the Tour. Just for your note the Android and iOS apps hve been available for months.

    For your diary the Tour starts end June/beginning July every year. (June30th this year).

    I think Metro Tour looks like a worthy effort and read about it at AAWP but discovered it just too late to be worthwhile and no fault I’m sure of the developer but just doesn’t offer the same level of live update as either the official AOS TdF app or Eurosport one. WP still miles behind. Burning platforms?

    • http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney

      Apologies that this has come so late in the tournament. We’re not very sporty on the UK team and it was only when we stumbled across Metro Tour that the topic occurred to us.