Stakeshirt in the Ardesh time trial, Borg, Saint-Andaul to La Cavernes de Pondark.

Ned Bolting, the hardest possible thing to do today talk about cycling and commentate on a bicycle race?

Yeah, we're getting so accustomed to it.

I think that's the dreadful truth at the moment,

that sport is part of everyday life,

and everyday life is routinely overshadowed by these cataclysms.

And certainly that was the

I'd no idea like most people here that what happened in these had happened until I got

up for breakfast and David Miller told me and it is we all share the same sentiment surely

we all share the same sentiment so it did feel you know simultaneously know, simultaneously the right thing to do, get on with the bike race,

but also hollow.

But there we are.

You know, the riders get on with it, so does everyone else on the Tour de France entourage.

It reminded me in some ways of, I think it was 2011, when in the middle of the

race, all those Norwegian children lost their lives and those gun attacks. And I think I'm

right in saying it was the same day that Edvard Bosenhagen had won the stage into Pinarola.

Does that ring a bell?

Either way, I remember feeling dreadful for our Norwegian colleagues,

and it was apparent how empty they were feeling,

I think they were taking off the air the next day.

And here we go again.

One hopes that cycling, sport,

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