Home/Sports/Cycling Weekly/November 4, 2021/In This IssueCycling Weekly|November 4, 2021Start line 4.11The news of the Tour de France potentially returning to UK shores is music to my ears. The memories of the London and Yorkshire Grand Départs still make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up as on both occasions the crowds were unlike anything I’d seen before.The three-country bid now in the pipeline (see page 10 for more info) looks like a copy of the bid that was due to go in for 2014 until the parties involved were gazumped by Gary Verity and Welcome to Yorkshire who turned up at ASO’s Paris headquarters in a helicopter and took Christian Prudhomme for lunch in Yorkshire. Or so the story goes.The two struck up an immediate friendship and the rest is history. It’s amazing to think that, if…1 minCycling Weekly|November 4, 2021Birmingham Commonwealth routes unveiledThe routes for the road races and time trials at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games have been announced, with the...
