By this stage nearly 3,200 riders, many seasoned cyclists, had been swept up or given up. Tour de France 2010 var den 97. udgave af Tour de France, og blev kørt fra 3. til 25. juli.. Løbet startede med en 8,9 km prolog i Rotterdam, Holland.

"Je suis ------- knackered," said the Yorkshire philosopher. All the way bystanders whooped and hollered, tending to riders with punctured tyres, pushing when legs faltered and feeding and watering those for whom it had all become too much. When I reached Esterre, the midway point of the infamous Col du Tourmalet, I was greeted by what looked like an elaborate Antony Gormley exhibition.

Out of the saddle, I covered the last few yards in a blur of grinding teeth and quivering thighs. "Courage, monsieur," said the old lady, shaking her weathered fist at me as I passed, while her husband doused my head with the cool water he had gathered from the rivulets pouring down the mountainside. Some were frozen astride their bikes, their heads slumped over their handlebars; others had retreated to the shade of a rocky overhang, each folding his body into any crevice to escape the mind-numbing heat; several more were glassy-eyed, sprawled on the verge. It was near, but as I began to veer across the road, overwhelmed with exhaustion, perhaps too far. The couple's camper van was just one of thousands parked precariously on the cliff edge. The total length was 3,642 kilometres (2,263 mi) including 60.9 kilometres (37.8 mi) in time-trials. said the voice inside my head, getting louder and more persuasive with every turn of the pedals. As I too began to weave and wander across the road, a man rushed out of the crowd to push me for 20 glorious yards. But one by one our team, who have barely spent six months in the saddle, passed bravely by to raucous cheers from the girls. I gestured that I would stop if he needed help, but with a groan he waved me on. It was just after the "10 kilometres to go" marker that I spotted the "Go Team Starmers" sign from 200 yards away and was grateful I had my shades.

I shifted position, trying to extract new life from my weary muscles, as Darran Carpenter, a former Great Britain cyclist, had suggested as Even in my exhausted, dehydrated state I could appreciate the beauty of the landscapes through which we passed. I wiped away the tears, waved cheerily and foolishly upped my cadence, sweeping past the drinks stop at Barèges, thinking I was home and dry. It was on this wave of goodwill that 10,000 of us had been carried out of the nerve-jangling start in Pau, the south-western town that acts as a gateway to the Haute-Pyrenees, and up the punishingly steep slopes of the Marie Blanque, before toiling along the windswept flats around Asson. It was enough of a respite to allow me to mount one final grandstand finish. The most important was the There were also two special awards each with a prize of €5000, the Soldiers call it the thousand-yard stare: they were hearing but not listening, looking but not seeing – and I was on the verge of joining them. As the clouds lifted, a snaking line of cyclists lost in their own world of pain provided a conga of colour against the verdant fields and forests of the river valley.

I thought of the sums we had raised to fund research into T-cell lymphoma cancer, from which my brother died, the generosity of those who had donated (we had raised £58,000 so far) and the kindness of cyclists along the course who had recognised the charity and wished us God's speed. Beneath it my parents, my wife and all the other cycling "widows" were nervously gathered, waiting, watching and hoping. Only the shadows of the chairlifts on the road beside me told me that we must be near. The 2010 Tour de France was the 97th edition of the Tour de France cycle race, one of cycling's Grand Tours. I dared not look at the markers that informed me of the next round of punishment with three bleak statistics – the gradient of the slope, the distance left, the altitude climbed.

I had no doubt it would be something profound, something inspirational. He not only went on to conquer all 113 miles of the route; he also made it to the top of the Tourmalet in the top 20 per cent of all riders. Last week, Charles Starmer-Smith took part in the Étape du Tour…

It all became too much for the cyclist alongside me, who suddenly fell down – and stayed down. Due to this, he has been disqualified from the 2009, 2010 and 2012 Tours de France.There were four main individual classifications contested in the 2010 Tour de France, as well as a team competition.

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