Even if you don't like cycling,
you know, what the Tour de France is?
Do you know it's grueling?
3300 km day after day.
Real mixture of terrain.
Got the mountains about the Alps,
the Pyrenees,
we got the cobbles in northern France.
This is pretty Ament.
He's either professional suffering. We're trying to
emulate them by doing every single Mile
and at the same time, raising money and awareness for a great
cause
I was diagnosed with leukemia in 2003
and been trying to say thank you to the guys. That got me in
this position ever since
introduce cycling to raising awareness and raising money
back in 2005, and it just got bigger and bigger. And
the sport for the charity.
Rome's
individual are asking everybody to raise thirty thousand
pounds. There's a very wide range of ability levels in
people from different backgrounds. Everyone's got
a story to tell there regarding the disease and what we're
doing this for and I think that helped everybody to pull
through
cycling is an absolute level Euler and you're all equal when
you're on that mountain struggling together.
Welcome to Copenhagen the happiest city in the world,
very famous for all its cycle. Paths does create a few promise
you there's so many bikes
this could make or break. Three weeks, it's really important to
get through this bit before we start writing for proper
tomorrow.
It's a little bit nervous, to be honest, it's quite basic 2D,
but it's great to be with the team. I've got this amazing new
Bae
I've invested then, and it's just great to be on that.
Sun was shining the students were celebrating graduation. It
was good to see
the camera at his gate. There's a real Bond. I think already
fallen with a team.
It was a nice stretch of our legs to prepare us for what's
to come.
Today, Matthew I'm gonna be okay.
Today,
I'm be mainly riding my bike.
202, km/h allative, Leaf, last stage. I'm really nervous.
The longest I've ever ridden is 180 kilometers before. Super
dated, it's a new challenge. Always
is really nice and cool when we get back out on the bike.
I'm ready.
That's not a safe. Right? Let's point out potholes. As make
sure that we don't take any unnecessary risks. Let's go for
a bite, right?
Last year's start was brutal. A lot of Hell's on a flat stone.
This time. It's been pretty much flat. Couple of very small
bombs
welding, great.
It's a great way of getting into the tool. What I had
enough
That shoulder back, but
we're okay. Like to have a little bit of a makeover.
Really, really hard. Day's work
ask me again, on on alto. As if I feel like getting on a swing,
the answer might be melt
Have your garments on boys
overall classification. That's why
there's an off day tomorrow. It's fine. I had the lead out
by the way and then Captain America a man's Soul. The show.
Give you the first couple of days. Yeah thanks
beat mebeat me tomorrow we'll see how it goes much as they
like to complain. Who one day 3 which was me fair and square.
At the end of the day, short of the fun competitions. It's all
about getting across the line together. And raising the money
for acute, leukemia. That's why we're all here. Hi, when can I
start? Yeah,
you're in safe. Hands with Andy,
get around front and really well,
ever since I started to say who, it's just not very long.
I've always always always had this
Agony tall. What it feels like to summon is tied and elastic
band around the tutorials that are next to my pinky toe.
And it is so sore.
I've tried everything new shoes and so n and so on
and just not if it's working, but I saw the physio that's
part of the support team and been having acupuncture at
night which I never had before. It's not something they're
going to be able to fix over the next nine, teams ages that
we've got left, but hopefully we can
just manage it. So that it's not completely Agony for
the whole thing. Everything,
do you going?
Here we are. The combination of sort of 12 months prep, and
some training.
Unfortunately, my daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in
November, 20, 20.
So I was looking for something that would help fund trials
because they're massively underfunded with
the kids cancer. Protect only these kids have been treated
with medicine that is 50 years old and the side effects are
staggering Children's Cancer. Only receives two percent of
all funding that works out
They're in 700 pounds per kid.
Now, we spend more than a set of wheels.
So the real motivation for me is to raise money and trying to
raise this million pounds. Raising awareness, generating
more trials to try and find cures.
This is my way of being able to pay back.
I've got a thing. I must aim
that relates to live,
so every time I'm
having a bad moment, I can kind of
work down at that and and get my head up again and
crack on and get stage finished, you know.
Killer Kane was part of building. An infrastructure
that allows clinical trials to happen 10 15 years ago, there
wasn't an infrastructure, it's a fast track, all this
hope and that's what it is. All these trials are delivering
hope to patients at in the past. We're told so we can't do
anything else. So what these guys are doing raising
awareness and
more importantly, the money
fun. There's more research nurses nationally,
the bigger the, the program,
the quicker. The the answers are found. So it is crucial
that we carry on growing and expanding what we
That's a mistake about couples
in Flanders, they're an essential part of the biggest
races
today. We're riding 11 sectors. They look a part of the power
of a race and the single day Riders the One race they want
to win is Perry Bay.
It's so unpredictable
it's physically and psychologically tough.
Basically, you're looking for the smoothest path.
Actually on the cobbles themselves that's going to be
on the crown.
Then you've got the edges.
Now the edges are great because they are smooth and they're
dust and Gravely but the trouble with the ages is
there's hidden potholes and suddenly someone flips over
because they've gone down a hole. So
you've got to be really alert.
You don't understand it until you're on it.
You just can't it just
it's Bruce away. Absolutely brutal, they are. Is it over?
Let's go.
Where you going on in the club? I'll be very happy. I'm not get
the rest of my life. Never doing it again. I'm surprised,
you know, we one person fell off
and I you know and that's a group of people have never seen
them before. And you know, they rode actually surprisingly well
it was really, really interesting to watch. Actually
I absolutely loved it
appealed to my side.
In style which is
I have no style when I cycle it's just brute force and
ignorance. Today was just a different kind of suffering
flat out in a really big gear,
but kind of fun in the same vein as well.
Tomorrow is, is the longest stage ever
in the Tour. De France, will start an even earlier. It's
going to be a longer there because without an intern case.
So hey,
it's just par for the course I think really