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um and we will get a very aggressive race here and uh you know we’re all talking about uh Tedy pogar and uh the man who is defending here um yonis V Ando uh we know he’s coming back from a long time out because of his accident in the pay best country and uh yeah the expectations were and everybody talking about he was going to give him a very difficult start not even settle into this race but we’ve been here in pogar as well you know there’s rumor there cover all that how well will he be so all of that has to be put into the mix here but you know you can see already the way they are almost crowding out uh the the race director’s car here they’re just you know ready for the start here and we’re getting ever so close now it’s 1.3 km to go but this is well this is going to be a really fast start because the breakway guys are going thinking yeah you never know the GC men might just you know watch each other they might not control too much and the possibility of the break getting away and going all the way stay win possible and getting the L Jersey so you know that is huge for a lot of those Riders who are not going to be in the Shake in the final if it goes down to the big fight between uh the big GC men and the big punchers so they’re going to try the start so that you know certainly is going to be a very aggressive start we’re getting ever closer to that start for most of you it’s around a Saturday lunchtime or getting up for it whatever your plans were cancel them whatever you do do make sure you don’t move because the Grande partenza yes grande partens the grand of this Tour of France the big start of a 3 we soap opera like no other in the world of sport is about to begin we’re getting towards that kilometer to go now or just less before we get to kilom 0 been a big buildup this year hasn’t it all of the big names the crashes the worries the ill the will they won’t they well they’re all here we don’t quite know in what fall state but we’re ready to go they gather some of them in New Jersey kits and names in and around that car settle in because it’s approaching the excitement around is palpable as for eosa who came back to the city just a couple of days ago where became the world champion in 2013 he’s now the new Portuguese champion and all eyes will be on the Italian Champion Alberto bettiol today as the Next Generation look to Pedal in his footsteps this is the place where the strongest Riders Thrive when faced with the toughest tests this is the to of France starting in a glorious setting and with a sensational start list everybody’s ready Riders are eager only 21 days to make their impression and leave their mark on the biggest annual sporting event in the world this year has its most beautiful start and it is on the way the big stars are here this is the first time in which vingo Pacha RIT aapol fond and fard have all started ever in the same stage race and this lot have more trophies between them than would fit into the entirey and Academy galleries the first few pedal Strokes are taken it’s tentative for the moment and now we get the first attack on Italian soil it’s French teams who are going at it Shan Kelly grou said they came to win and here they are showing their new faces yes well you could see there just for a moment everybody is looking each other who’s going to make the first attack here but you could see you know they wern’t given us space at all we could see the uh group Amoro that almost pushed the L right they off the side of the road there at the left hand side and that tells that you know they want to be in position but waiting for a little bit to see who’s going to put in the attacks so we can see here you know a lot of movement and this is just G through without winding it up now and yeah there will be a lot more of attacks and looking around and going again all of that but I think we can see when you look at here you think they’re going get an easy Pace but you know they’re probably doing 50 plus km per hour at the moment