Champs-Élysées
I don’t think I’ll try to become a professional sports photographer any time soon. But here are three images from this afternoon’s racing, anyway.
Quite by chance I seem to have got Alberto Contador in the middle of this pic, on the second half of the first circuit of the Champs-Élysées, flanked by the rest of his Discovery Channel team.
Here comes the peloton!
The Lampre riders, on their way to set up the stage win for Daniele Bennati.
When I was watching on telly, I wondered - what if there was a breakaway early on and the leading group got to the Champs-Élysées early enough to be a lap ahead of the other riders? It strikes me as harder to manage than a similar occurrence in athletics (where they move more slowly) or motor racing (where when the leader has finished, everybody else finishes too rather than do extra laps).
↓ Quote | Posted 30 July, 2007, 1:19 pmThere seems to be a convention whereby the maillot jaune’s team leads out on the first circuit of the Champs-Élyseés, and then the racing starts properly after that, so it’s an unlikely eventuality. But, yes, in theory, there could be mayhem.
↓ Quote | Posted 30 July, 2007, 1:25 pmMind you they do have those cycle races indoors, don’t they, where everybody seems to be on a different lap?
↓ Quote | Posted 30 July, 2007, 1:28 pmYes, but I don’t care about those.
↓ Quote | Posted 30 July, 2007, 1:36 pm