Calm down calm down!!!! I never said there was no interest in Le Tour. There has always been cyclists who follow it and maybe a few sports fanatics who follow anything but with the success over recent years of our cyclists has come increased demand and with it the increased media attention...
To be fair to the UK, interest in cycling starting increasing from the time of Boardman and then escalated more with Wiggins and Hoy's success in 2004 and subsequent Olympics. Obviously interest in 'le Tour' has now gone stratopheric in the last two years because of Wiggins and his team, first...
Is he going to give back his BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year award? (sorry if someone has already posted this but can't be arsed to search or read the whole thread).