Pezcyclingnews: Tour’15: Alpe D’huez Roadside!

Roadside Stage 20: There’s only one thing crazier than Alp d’Huez at the Tour de France – and that’s the Dutch Corner on Alp d’Huez at the Tour de France. Ed & Callum were up the road, roadside, and inside the madness that is one of pro sport’s maddest moments. Here’s the full photo report.The guy next to me has just showered me in beer, the fresh mountain air is stale with the smell of sweat, garlic breath, alcohol, burning clutches, flares and exhaust fumes; the noise is ear splitting; there are elbows in my ribs, people crush my toes – the team cars try to take them off altogether.Dutch Corner, L’Alpe d’Huez, 2015 Tour de France, Stage 20.You have to love it.The last we saw on the TV the Dutch guy had set up in a tent, F des J’s Alexandre Geniez was clear, solo with three minutes plus on a group which Garmin’s Ramunas Navarduskas had been driving for his Capo, Big Ryder Hesjedal who’s on a real good day.Also in there are Pinot, Plaza, Anacona, Serpa . . .The ‘Bigs’ are behind – Quintana and Valverde examined Froome on the Croix Fer but Christopher passed the test.We watched the last 50 K into the climb on the TV in the tent.The Dutch guy who’s tent it was saw me jotting down notes;“Hey ! This is your job ! You must put two Euros in the jar, eh ?”I duly put my two Euros in the jar and...

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