When Team Sky proudly showed Tour of Italy journalists around the motorhome it had hired for leader Richie Porte as an alternative to the organisers' team hotels, it felt like a breakthrough.
4,500 Number of participants in the TdF, including organisers, teams, media, partners, publicity caravan, service providers.
According to the organisers, over a quarter of the 1,000-person 1,000-personeam worganisinger ateamndon 2012 or Glasgoworked.
It's not the first time the race organisers' media team has made a passing reference to Native Americans as Indians.
I've written about oxygen and respiration systems before, but tents, food rations, boots and ropes were all argued over and tested by the organisers and team members of the 1953 expedition.
The new method refined and rolled out by Team Obama in 2012 involves one paid field organiser organising perhaps five neighbourhood team leaders.
Organisers ensure teams are given fair hotel allocation across the three-week race, with teams in five-star accommodation one night and budget hotels the next.
1,450 Number of beds reserved every day for the organisers and teams.
"He is an outstanding leader and organiser in the team and to find someone with all those capabilities and who has the heart the size of a lion is very difficult.
Bradley Miles, chief executive of Polaris, says sales team organisers actively recruit vulnerable young people.
The organisers, Sir Keith Mills' Team Origin, claimed a spectator crowd of 48,000 ashore and estimated another 15,000 in a substantial spectator fleet on the water.
