Tour de France 2026 peloton

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Chains are being greased and oiled as I type. Crush barriers being erected. “Special” sauces are being prepared…. all for the biggest push bike race in the world.

Is the MN peloton pumping some air in our tyres?

I'm on TNT but i know others who are watching australian coverage on SBS (I think it's called SBS) via a VPN.

So on a computer? No way of watching on normal TV in the UK?

If you have the right cable you can use a TV as an external monitor, and display everything on your computer on the TV. Easy with a laptop, more faff with a desktop computer of course.

Yeah, I guess I could run a cable from my laptop to (ancient) TV with the right adapter as TV doesn't have HDMI only SCART. What a faff.

My tech support gremlin has managed to hook it up to the telly somehow but I couldn't tell you how. It is however most annoying that the gentleman's TdF was available on free telly even if highlights only, and the women's TdF is not and then everyone wonders why one of these things is more popular than the other.

Not only that but, although TNT says it offers coverage of each stage from start to finish, it doesn't actually start it's broadcast until 2.30, and so misses the first half of the stage

And its coverage is crap. Bring back Gary Imlach. I'd even settle for bringing back Orla...

I think that's an issue with all the TV providers tbh - they can only show what French TV cameras are giving them, and with the women they're not turning them on until mid afternoon. Sigrid Haugset made her decisive move considerably before the cameras started rolling, it's infuriating.

TNT have said every day this week that they are showing everything that the host broadcasters are providing them. Unfortunately French TV don't seem to think the Femmes race is as worthy as the Men's as they can't be bothered to film it all. It's quite disgusting.

Apparently they are only filming 3 stages in full which are the first day, the last day and one mid-week (Wednesday?).

It's weird isn't it? Because they must be filming the whole stage, surely? They can't have the fleet of camera motos just arriving en masse at 2.30. So it wouldn't cost them anything extra to just provide the feed. It's especially stupid when there's a significant climb shortly after the start of a stage; all that drama just missed. It doesn't sound like a genuine attempt to grow women's cycling. And women's cycling is at such an exciting stage, just evolving from an amateur sport into a true professional one, with great talent, interesting personalities all over the place, fascinating stories and inter and intra team rivalries, genuine uncertainty about who is going to win

I think the camera motos are just trundling along at the back - they're definitely there, but not filming until the designated hour I think.

How magnificent was today's stage though?! We were cheering for Kasia so hard 😍 And all those fans on the mountain, what a great statement that yes people DO want to Watch The Femmes 💖

💯 agree with you. Great stage- the crowds should be saying something to the organisers!

It definitely isn't a tnt decision, Orla did some stuff on the disparity with the women earlier in the year. Might have been Paris Roubaix?

Loving TdFF too, much more open and not so predictable. Kasia was my pick today, but I was worried when she went off with over 8k to go. But Reusser and Vollering didn't work together so didn't stand a chance of catching her.
Brava Kasia!

Orla did a piece just the other day stating that it wasn't TNT's fault.

Not that TNT aren't a shitty organisation anyway with their ridiculous price hike following the purchase of GCN, which I loved

Totally agree. I think it's disgusting that French TV can't be bothered to promote women's cycling. Clearly the French public are very supportive considering the size of the crowds that have turned out.

This is the first time I've watched TdFF and I have found it totally thrilling. I only started watching the men's racing two years ago so it's all still a bit new to me.

Today's stage was just amazing. I so wanted Kasia to win the stage as she's never won a stage before but came so close to it the other day. And what a stage to do it on!