Lauren Fignon was the best Le Tour rider I ever did see.  Being English, I hate the French , but Fignon was a great Le Tour cyclist. Nick P.S. Great to see some brief interviews with him on ITV4 too over the last three weeks.

lanternerouge:Isn't it to get the riders behind out of your slipstream? In fact it is the otherway around.  The lead cyclists does this, as it helps to see a pending attack and hopefully be able to react 'pre-emptive', and jump the gun first.  The reason all the cyclists follow and all weave about like a shoal of fish is until ...

Garmin, the GPS people, are using their Edge 705 GPS enabled bike computers (I have an Edge 605) on their sponsored GARMIN CHIPOTLE team during the tour, and the telemetry data is uploaded each day to the 'motionbased' web site so all can see/use it.  A staggering wealth of information - and staggering data from le tour riders  Nick

What on earth are these people thinking!!!!!!! So many good cyclists trying so hard every day to be like a pro rider and look up to these guys and you get silly idiots (minority now) that have to ruin it. I love cycling and the tour de france with a passion but these drugs cheats really get me down and to make matters worse its the only time we ...

Does anybody else think that the quality of interviewers is not up to asking good questions of the likes of Mark Cavendish? His response to some of the inane questions posed demonstrates that he has no respect for them. Why can't ITV get an ex-professional rider who would get respect and ask sensible questions?

I just caught the end of the video blog from Geraint Thomas at the GB Olympic camp on Saturday's programme. Any chance of it being available on the web? Keep up the good work.   AB 

All   Please can someone tell me where I can download a full list of riders.?   Thanks in advance.   Mike