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.
July 4, 2014. 1  The 2014 edition of the Tour de France begins in Leeds on Saturday, July 5, as British rider Chris Froome begins the defence of his title on home soil. 2  If he is successful in completing the three-week race in the quickest time of all the 198 riders taking part, he will land a â¬450,000 slice of the total prize purse of â¬2.2 million.