Prudhomme: Yorkshire is going to put on magnificent Tour de France

After being welcomed into Leeds-Bradford airport by the band of the Yorkshire Regiment playing the Marseillaise and Yorkshire’s unofficial anthem, "On Ilkla Moor Baht ’At", Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme said he can’t wait for the 101st Tour to get under way on Saturday so that the whole world can understand why he chose to start the race in the north of England.

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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