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Tour de France 2013: Champs Élysées

Tour de France 2013: Champs Élysées. Photo: Christer Hedberg | christerhedberg.se

Champs Élysées. The parade avenue of Paris. Glamour, fashion and silly expensive coffee. But the riders of Tour de France see none of this. They see a treacherous street paved with a combination of cobble stones, sticky soft tar that melts in the heat and potholes. Not so glamorous.

Tour de France 2013: Champs Élysées. Photo: Christer Hedberg | christerhedberg.se

© Christer Hedberg | christerhedberg.se

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Tour de France 2013: The soigneurs

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One of the many tasks for the Lotto Belisol soigneurs is to bring the riders bottles of drinks at the feeding zones. One bootle marked X containing carbohydrates and one marked R containing electrolytes. How they know which rider get what? They don’t. They just hand them out as fast as they can to the passing riders and the riders make it work.

Tour de France 2013: The soigneurs. Photo: Christer Hedberg | christerhedberg.se

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