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.
There are 474 riders from 41 nations registered with the 17 UCI World Tour teams for 2015. The average age of a rider is 28 years and 3 months. The oldest rider is the 40 year-old Matteo Tosatto (Tinkoff-Saxo) who is pictured above and just seven years younger than his boss Oleg Tinkov. Lampre-Meridaâs Colombian neo-pro Eduardo Estrada is the youngest pro, aged 19. Hereâs a look at the 2015 World Tour peloton in numbers.