Tour de France 2022 – Time to pass the baton

Whoah, hang on, does it start today? I thought it always started on the Saturday? Wassallatabout?

Starts today cos of the stupid long transfer into France which is Monday. So there’s an extra rest day which means it needs to start one day earlier.

I’ll do a stage 1 thread shortly…

Whoah, hang on, does it start today? I thought it always started on the Saturday? Wassallatabout?

Starts today, three stages in Denmark then a day to transfer back to France on Monday.

Ah, gotcha. Best make sure the tellyrecorderbox is set up then

TOday is ITT day, 15.30 uk time. ITV4 coverage with Gary Imlach, Ned Boulting and David Millar start 14.45. GCN coverage starts 14.30 – they have a LOT of presenters in various languages

We are excited to announce the presenters for the Tour de France 2022! ???️

Watch the #TDF2022 LIVE on @discoveryplusUK ?

— Eurosport (@eurosport) June 26, 2022

I’m in. I usually watch the highlights in the evening but as it’s a prologue I’ll have the TV on live this afternoon whilst I, um, work.

I think I’ll watch the ITV4 pre-race coverage until the ITT actually starts, and then watch the highlights later cos watching a live time-trial is, well, a bit dull…

i’m getting to love the GCN coverage but the web stuff helps as well to fill in.  Summer is here at last

Hmm… might commit to ITV4 this time, will miss Orla and Adam but very much enjoy David Miller’s insider knowledge delivered as dour little asides. I also sense a fellow never-discer in him 😎 (or that might be Boardman, there’s always one of them who starts going off on little groupset-sponsor-unfriendly moans until you sense they are hushed up by their co-commentators 😂 )

ITV4 for me, its way better than GCN imo.

ITV4 for me, its way better than GCN imo.

Agreed. I kind of like EuroSport now though – their rotation of commentators works well so you’re not stuck with one guy for the entire thing, they have different pairings.

Gary Imlach on ITV4 though remains the absolute highlight for deadpan asides.

Also looking forward to Ned Boulting’s theatre tour later in the year, got tickets for the Salford Quays one.

Imlach is the king. Here we go