- Updates as the riders tackle Cols de Vars, Izoard and Galibier
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- Jeremy Whittle: Pinot can take challenge to Team Ineos
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1.26pm BST
“I read somewhere that Henri Desgrange, who organized the very first Tour de France in 1903, envisioned a race so hard that only one rider would actually make it to Paris,” emails Scott Urista. “We may see something like that over the next three days…”
If I may quote myself, I once wrote about that Tour, as follows:
1.23pm BST
“Parklife has a bit of a place in my heart thanks to it coming out in the mid-90s, when the white heat of Britpop and my mid-teens combined in something suitably hormonally influential,” says Neil Withers, “BUT hearing or even imagining Damon Albarn singing ‘…eating all the morsels’ from Tracy Jacks sets my teeth on edge like nothing else on earth.
Some cycling, just to keep us both honest: as much as I’m sure we all like Geraint Thomas, surely we’re all holding out for either Alaphilippe or Pinot to win this year? They’ve both been awesome, Pinot v unlucky with that echelon split – plus France would go toutes bananes, non?”
