Tour de France in London

Posted by Mark on July 11, 2007 under sport | Be the First to Comment

All my Christmases came at once last Saturday, when the Tour de France started in London.

Although Le Tour has been to the UK on a couple of occasions before, the last time in 1994 (when I saw the finish in Portsmouth), they were never going to be as spectacular as the Prologue starting in London.

The route had fantastic backdrops at every turn – Whitehall, Westminster, Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace and The Mall – and luckily, great weather! The crowds turned out in the hundreds of thousands and lined the route the whole way. The support for every rider was fantastic, but for the Brits in the peloton the crowd noise was amazing.

We managed to get a great pitch outside Green Park gates, opposite Buckingham Palace, and ‘guarded’ our position all day I managed to get a few pictures, these are my favourites.

It was a shame Wiggins or Millar didn’t get a podium position, but Brad’s 4th place was a great effort – P1 next year Brad!