le Tour de France

I like the Tour de France, I think it is a fascinating event. I have always enjoyed cycling and a few years ago Lucy bought me the Lance Armstrong autobiography, which is an interesting book. It covers the inside view on the professional road cycling industry and the politics of the Tour. It is also a personal history of a fight against cancer and wonderful success story. The title "It's not about the bike" is very apt.
The BBC are covering it in quite a bit of depth on the news site, with a quiz too. ITV have the TV coverage this year.
On Friday the was a Radio4 programme on 100 years of the Tour de France, I managed to miss it, but Lucy enjoyed it. A journalist sits in a cafe and experiences the Tour, a wonderful example of Radio 4.
I'm sure that Lance will win it again this year, making it five times in a row. When he recovered from cancer he rebuilt all the muscles in his body purely for cycling and he takes training very seriously, so he is competely optimised for cycling. He is quite an amazing person.