This year’s Tour de France is now five eventful days into its first week. No British rider has ever won le Tour, but this year our very own Bradley Wiggins has been installed by almost everyone in the know as favourite. As well as causing British spectators to watch the opening stages through their fingers in fear he might crash out (as he did last year), Wiggins’ chances have caused a swell of home interest in the race.

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