Tour de France – live!

Like Philippe Gilbert, rather than one of the sprinters.

With around 200 riders, cycling for 22 different teams, attempting to cover 3,430.5km over the course of three weeks, this is truly one of the most mind-blowing, body-frazzling spectacles in sport. Luckily you can follow it from the couch, whilst eating crisps. It shouldn't be so hard to send in an email every now and again, should it?

So, I've found a way to watch Eurosport, which is currently giving a platform to the aforementioned Monsieur Fotheringham. They're talking about the situation involving Alberto Contador, the defending champion, and the ongoing wrangle over whether he should be suspended (the court of arbitration for sport recently held over its deliberations until after the Tour). And now we're back in the studio with AC Jimbo! The man is a sports broadcasting polymath ...

Thoughts on whether Contador should be racing? He put his positive test for clenbuterol during last year's Tour down to eating contaminated meat – the Spanish federation have accepted that explanation but the UCI (cycling's world governing body) aren't buying it.

The peloton is heading out on to the causeway now. There are crowds of people getting in the way, which is one of the charming things about the Tour de France – the riders just have to put up with spectators behaving like t*ts. The tide will come in and completely submerge the Passage du Gois later on, so hopefully the lollygaggers will have shifted by then. There is actually a bloke punting around on a stretch of water with the aid of what appears to be an ironing board and a broom ...

Our first email of the day comes from David. "Is Wiggins a real leader?" he asks, referring to the designated Great Briton of Le Tour, Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky's main man. "I still quite don't understand how Wiggins left Garmin's team after all the magnificient work the TEAM did for him to put him fourth in the 2009 TdF General Classification. A real leader doesn't behave that way, does he?" You and David Millar , eh? Just what is your surname, monsieur?

They've now stopped to play the Marseillaise and cut a ribbon. Looking at that causeway, I can't help but think of the Maldon mud race. Now that would be a good way to start the Tour – make the riders wade through the gloop for 400 metres before they can get on their bikes.

Anyway, the riders have stopped doing wheelies and pretending to pedal backwards furiously whilst actually still moving forwards and THE RACE PROPER HAS BEGUN. There's no prologue this year (though I'll confess, I've never really been sure what the prologue was. Is it an introduction written by the wordiest cyclist?), which is apparently bad news for Fabian Cancellera, the Swiss Leopard-Trek rider who likes to win it. Pauvre Fabian!

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Tour de France – live!
Tour de France – live!

1.40pm: "Re: 'who should a Brit support', amid all the focus on the British Team Sky, I'm not really sure it matters. British cycling fans have never been especially patriotic, mostly because we've had such slim pickings to champion.



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