News just in (sorry, I can’t bring myself to say “Breaking News”… damn): London has been confirmed as hosting the start of Le Tour next year. Ken Livingstone has been working hard for a while to get the start of the Tour, which hasn’t been in Britain since it came through Kent in 1994. There’d been some suggestion that Le Tour’s organisers might be a bit miffed at London after it was awarded the 2012 Olympics last year.
But the tour’s definitely coming here. Without seeing any more information than the banner at the bottom of a Sky News screen, I don’t know for certain, but would anticipate the prologue timetrial taking place around the streets of London, while the first stage would be from London to Canterbury, through the Kent countryside.
I’ll start making sure I’m available at the beginning of July next year.
[UPDATE: More info here and here]