Here we go. Time for another TdF already. I’m going to try and get a daily thread on here like the ones from @crazy-legs and @lunge. If you haven’t been watching womens racing then this is a great chance to see a really different style of racing. It’s going to be awesome.
The race starts today in Paris and makes it’s way to the Planche Des Belle Filles next weekend:
There’s a good whole-race preview over on Rouleur:
It should be a good one, there’s been a nice build up to it, the riders understand the significance of it all in terms of exposure and what’s at stake.
Hopefully, the event itself will be better run and managed than the frankly embarrassing “La Course” races which have happened in recent years – they always felt like token gestures that the organisers had reluctantly tacked on because they had to rather than because they wanted to.
Cracking sprint that!
I do find the camera position on the champs Elysees stage frustrating, the highlight views are always more informative about how the sprint works itself out.
They used to have a motorbike pace alongside outside the course, but don’t seem to do that anymore