Contador and Schleck make up on French TV

The first stop for any rider coming down from the Tour de France podium is in front of the microphone brandished by French television presenter Gérard Holtz. During his post-stage interviews in Pau, the effervescent Holtz received a bonus when race leader Alberto Contador and second-placed Andy Schleck reached his position at almost the same time.

Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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