I watched it on Eurosport. Commentary by David Harmon, who knows what he is talking about and explains much to new viewers, Sean Kelly, who knows some of the practicalities of team racing, and Carlton Kirby, hidden in the Eurosport hidey-hole in Paris, who at need has a story for everywhere they pass, and has seemingly, at one time or another, owned more of France than the Plantaganets. I have never been able to interest myself in watching someone running in circles, chasing a ball or chucking stuff, but the sheer spectacle of the Tour is something else.
Considering that cycle racing on public roads was all but illegal until the late 1950's in the UK, and the continentals were avidly practicing the sport for the previous 50 years, it is about time we managed to beat somebody else at their game, rather than out usual trick of inventing a game, then having the rest of the world overtake us.
