Tour de France 2012

And I'm sure all those talking about this "boring" tour wouldn't think it was boring if they were British and had spent the last 30 years watching it as some kind of strange foreign thing where maybe there'd be some plucky Brit finishing 2nd to last.

1987 and the ANC Halfords tour was my first experience of watching, and even 10 years ago I would have bet a lot of money I would never see a British winner. It just seemed so impossible, it just would never, ever happen.

The bigger picture illustrated

ITV 1 is showing the Paris finishing stage live 2-5pm

I might even cry a little bit on Sunday.