Christian Vande Velde had just finished reconnoitering next week’s team time trial stage of the Tour de France.
The temperature had been above 100 degrees, and the winding, narrow roads of the course in Montpellier, France were tricky and challenging.
As Vande Velde described those unpleasant conditions over the telephone a couple of days ago, he made it sound all good.
Who wouldn’t feel that way in the aftermath of a crash so bad it had left all kinds of thoughts in Vande Velde’s head during the ambulance ride that had taken him to an Italian emergency room? … Details