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    SURVIVING BIKE RACING’S CRAZIEST WEEK

    Jul 07, 2022 6 minutes

    Crashes will happen, riders will abandon and dreams will be shattered, but avoiding the negative consequences of an inevitably stressful opening week of the Tour de France is as much about canny riding and preparation as it is luck. The age-old adage goes that you can’t win yellow in the first week, but you can certainly lose it. This year’s race is fraught with a succession of dangers before the first proper rest day in Morzine this coming Monday.

    There was a slippery time trial course and tight roads to contend with in Denmark, followed by cobbles and nervous sprint stages during the week. How do you survive? A fundamental part of avoiding pitfalls is anticipating them, and while you can never eliminate the risk, you can reduce the possibility of being caught up in a crash or being on the wrong side of a crucial split.

    When Cadel Evans won the Tour in 2011, his BMC Racing team was

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