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I'm an extremely hermetically sealed, very quiet hotel room in Dortmund, quite close to the Vesfalan Stadion where Borussia Dortmunds.

The sun is out outside, my laptop is open and I've just finished watching the Tour de France presentation. I'm kind of lying. I got a bit

bored. I stayed for a couple of minutes, just watched that overall fly through at the beginning and then

switched it off again because I have sat through so many Tour de France presentations in the Pallé de

Conqueré in Paris in my, that even just watching it on an

online stream, I got kind of like miles to medium PTSD from watching it because my God does

it go on.

I've also just answered a call from Cycling Weekly who were ringing to get my impression, my reaction to the Tour de France

routes. And I think they were going to phone Lizzie for the Tour de France fam routes as well.

And I always really struggled to form an instant and valid judgment on every Tour de France route.

So I'm just going to go on gut and I may miss out sort of salient details. But I have to admit, I was kind of watching it, thinking, okay, when's the bit, when's the bit that's going to really fire my imagination? And when's the bit that if I were still broadcasting for ITV? I think, I'm really looking forward to being at the finish line that day. That's going to be amazing. And I kind of waited and I thought, oh, we've had the double a sense of Alpdewez and now, oh, we're in Paris. So I was a little bit underwhelmed. For a few reasons, really, one is, this is the men's route we're talking about, one is that I am

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