Cycling live blog 31 July 2024
"It's not April 1st, is it?": Cycling fans react to bizarre news Vuelta a España stage will start inside a supermarket; Crash carnage during Olympic triathlon + more on the live blog
"It's not April 1st, is it?": Cycling fans react to bizarre news Vuelta a España stage will start inside a supermarket"It's not April 1st, is it?": Cycling fans react to bizarre news Vuelta a España stage will start inside a supermarket, that just when you thought professional cycling couldn't get any weirder... they go and announce that stage six of the Vuelta will begin inside a Carrefour supermarket in Jerez. Bizarre.
Let's hope the closure is well-communicated and some poor abuela isn't left stranded outside without lunch. Good luck getting this idea past the British public for the Tour of Britain... could you imagine the uproar if Asda/Tesco/Sainsbury's was shut for such purposes? 'Lycra-clad racers starve the elderly' would surely get an outing in certain sections of the press...
On Twitter, Tim Cooper recalled some amusing fun he used to enjoy in an unnamed Halfords store thanks to his mate being the manager:"Mate of mine used to manage a Halfords superstore and was the keyholder. After closing — and after everyone had gone — we had criterium races round the aisles on Halfords bikes. I think the max number we had racing was 5.
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