Tour de France

This years tour has begun.
Stage 1 is from Brest to Landerneau in Brittany.
Chris Froome's back, so is Geraint Thomas.
And Mark Cavendish has been brought back by his team.

Eurosport on since 10.45, Tour de France Fantasy team selected, Beers in fridge. That’s me sorted for the next 3 weeks

Some dick holding a sign has managed to take out the majority of the peloton.

Bring back the guilotine

1 dopy fuckin fan not paying attention just brought down almost the entire peloton!

Instagram's fault!

And yet another crash at the 6km marker which has taken most of the peloton.
lncluding Chris Froome.

froome didn't look to healthy.

Julian Alaphilippe wins the 1st stage. The 1st Frenchman to win the 1st stage in years.

The Tour de France organisers have statted that they will sue the girl who caused the first mass crash of the peloton by holding a sign up in front of a rider and causing him to crash into the most of the peloton.

However on seeing what she did she did a runner.

Surprising that only 3 riders failed to finish stage 1 with the number of riders crashing. A forth, Marc Soler managed to finish the stage with breaks in both his forearms & has abandoned before todays start.

Hi

Todays stage won by Mathieu vander Poel

Pure pedigree, his brother is a cyclocross rider, his father is a cyclocross rider winner 6 times championship of the Netherlands and 2 stages TdF

His grandfather is none other than Raymond Pouidor . winner of the Tour of Spain and runner up TdF 3 times and 3rd 5 times, plus stages wins and also classics

Raymond was also one of the most approachable of the retired rider and a very popular person on the tour caravan, sadly died in 2019 at age 83. He was also a proficient rose gardener and poker player.

Great to see a family tradition continue