The five major ocean gyres. A gyre in oceanography is any large system of circulating ocean currents, particularly those involved with large wind movements. Gyres are caused by the Coriolis effect; planetary vorticity along with horizontal and vertical friction, determine the circulation patterns from the wind curl (torque).
Velogames Fantasy Cycling has been providing fantasy cycling contests since 1997. The centrepiece event is the Velogames Fantasy Tour de France, which attracted almost 40,000 teams in 2015.
Actually, 2 hrs 59 mins 21 seconds â stats are sacred in this race â by Maurice Garin in the first-ever Tour de France in 1903. The Tour has run every year since, aside from the war years 1915-1918 and 1940-46. The number of countries visited by this year's TdF: England, France, Belgium, Spain.