I love watching it. It's a great event for the endurance and the scenery. I always laugh because one year my girlfriend and I spent time bicycling in France - what we covered in a few weeks was done is a single day stage of the TdF. To be fair we consumed a lot more vino and pastries!

For cycling personalities I like Cavendish as much for his direct, open, honest speech to the media compared to the normal sanitised say nothing approach that is trained into sports stars as for his sprinting capabilities.

Anyone got a Criterium 2000 pin? https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=5946