As per usual the British media will only feature cycling when there's a death, a drug bust or a spectacular crash. However, today's Financial Times is an exception...

Brit papers ignore Le Tour (except for FT)

Whilst most the media is still obsessed with Euro2000, one of the colour supplements in today’s Financial Times carries an impressive article on the start of the Tour de France.

It’s a first person account of following the world’s greatest travelling sporting event.

Cannondale will be pleased, the cover features the self-styled world’s fastest rider with his bum out over the saddle of his white Cannondale.

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