This year’s Tour de France has something for everyone
As much as the Tour is about the race for the yellow jersey, stories of agony and despair are just as much a part of the narrative, part of the reason that fans fall in love with it.
It is difficult to think of a Tour de France that has featured as many tears in the opening week as this one.
We saw sprinter Mark Cavendish weeping with joy after winning his first Tour stage in five years into Fougeres last Tuesday and Dylan Teuns dedicating his breakaway stage win in Le Grand-Bornand on Saturday to his recently deceased grandfather. Then there were the poor riders who missed the time cut at the end of another brutal stage on Sunday, their faces contorted in misery after five hours in the wind and rain only to be told they were going home.
