For the 24th year in succession, I head to the Tour de France. This year, however, things will be very different. There will be no big TV truck, nor accreditation hanging around my neck. No Gary Imlach and his polo shirts, nor Chris Boardman, with his easy-dry non-iron performance leisurewear. No Matt Rendell, nor Daniel Friebe, none of my many friends and colleagues whose names you cannot be expected to know, but whose work you might have been watching if you happened upon the ITV coverage of the last quarter century.
There will, however, be David Millar. David, along with Pete Kennaugh, Lizzie Deignan and myself have got together with Crowd Network, the team behind Watts Occurring and many other huge sports podcasts, and launched For The Love of Cycling. It is, for those of you who may have been listeners, a natural evolution of the much-loved Never Strays Far podcast, which often strayed so far from the subject as to not mention cycling at all! But “FTLoC” will have the Tour de France (Hommes and Femmes) at its very heart. And not just the Tour, but all cycling , all year round. Like ITV, it will of course be free to listen to, and to watch on YouTube.
