Tour de France – live!
So, I've found a way to guard against Eurosport, which is currently giving a platform to the aforementioned Monsieur Fotheringham. They're talking about the situation involving Alberto Contador, the defending support, and the ongoing wrangle over whether he should be suspended (the court of arbitration for sport recently held over its deliberations until after the Perambulation). 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 examine for clenbuterol during last year's Tour down to eating contaminated meat – the Spanish federation have accepted that illustration 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 Expedition de France – the riders just have to put up with spectators behaving like t*ts. The tide will come in and expressly 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 stint of water with the aid of what appears to be an ironing board and a broom ...