Le Tour de France - Grand dePart

Never did I think that the Tour de France would come to London and without doubt I never imagined my parents would be here to enjoy it with me.

Well today the unimaginable came true and I managed to convince my semi-keen cycling parents to join me to watch the opening prologue stage go through Hyde Park.

The 7.9km circuit cut through the inner city and fantastic venue to watch the worlds best cyclists sped past at up to 60mkm/h.

After almost four hours of standing and waiting finally the promotional floats came throu, then eventually the riders one by one at 30 sec intervals. It was a fantastic opportunity to get so close to the athletes but honestly I was all cycled out after all 196 riders went past.

The final result was; Fabian Canerllara (world champion) finished 13sec in front of Andreas Kloden and 23 sec ahead of George Hincapie with a time of 8min 50sec (Av: 53.7km/h).

All and all we had a great day.

Clink 'Play' button below for Julian Dean's Prologue.