Alex Edmondson resembled Superman as he made a running start to stage 16 of the Tour de France, ditching time trial ceremony to mount his bike and begin the final week of the race in one fluid movement.
Blink and you would have missed Edmondson – who TV crews incorrectly referred to as his dsm-firmenich teammate Sam Welsford – as he skipped the traditional standing start with countdown in Passy for the hurried maneuver that Welsford repeated just moments after.
