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It’s 9.30 pm, Saturday night, and my favourite annual sports event is about to start. What is it? The Tour de France, the world’s premier pro cycling event.
Yes, I love the AFL and NRL grand finals, but the two teams I follow don’t reach that ultimate game each year, so my interest is high, but my passion low. But the Tour? It’s on every year.
I’ve been a fan since the early 1980s. Back then all you could see were brief segments on The Wide World of Sports, or short films before films at the cinema. Then in 1991 it all became a little easier to be a fan, with Australia’s SBS broadcasting the race. The channel showed a little more of the race over time, to the point now that each and every stage of the race is shown live.
And what a race! It takes place over three weeks, starting 4 July, and finishing on Sunday 26 July, in what is the 102nd edition of the race. All up there are 21 stages, two rest days, 22 teams of nine riders, and by race end the riders will have powered their bikes along 3,359.8 kilometres to the finish line on Paris’ iconic Avenue des Champs-Élysées.
Why do I love the Tour de France so much? Firstly, I love it as an incredible sporting event. Yes cycling has a tainted history, what with drugs, blood doping, and the infamous bullying tactics and doping in recent years involving seven-time Tour winner Lance Armstrong (his seven titles have subsequently been stripped), but even so, to make it into the race, and then finish, is I think still a monumental achievement. Individual race tactics, team tactics, astonishing mountain climbs, death-defying descents… it’s an incredibly exciting sport.
Yes, I love the AFL and NRL grand finals, but the two teams I follow don’t reach that ultimate game each year, so my interest is high, but my passion low. But the Tour? It’s on every year.
I’ve been a fan since the early 1980s. Back then all you could see were brief segments on The Wide World of Sports, or short films before films at the cinema. Then in 1991 it all became a little easier to be a fan, with Australia’s SBS broadcasting the race. The channel showed a little more of the race over time, to the point now that each and every stage of the race is shown live.
And what a race! It takes place over three weeks, starting 4 July, and finishing on Sunday 26 July, in what is the 102nd edition of the race. All up there are 21 stages, two rest days, 22 teams of nine riders, and by race end the riders will have powered their bikes along 3,359.8 kilometres to the finish line on Paris’ iconic Avenue des Champs-Élysées.
Why do I love the Tour de France so much? Firstly, I love it as an incredible sporting event. Yes cycling has a tainted history, what with drugs, blood doping, and the infamous bullying tactics and doping in recent years involving seven-time Tour winner Lance Armstrong (his seven titles have subsequently been stripped), but even so, to make it into the race, and then finish, is I think still a monumental achievement. Individual race tactics, team tactics, astonishing mountain climbs, death-defying descents… it’s an incredibly exciting sport.
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