Prudhomme: My journey from fan to journalist to Tour de France race director

Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme holds the starting flag for the grid-start of stage 17

Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme holds the starting flag for the grid-start of stage 17 (Image credit: Getty Images)

My father was a huge cycling fan. At our home in Paris, it was on the television, on the radio, and in the many publications we had scattered around the house. One of my first memories, though, wasn’t of the Tour de France but the Ardennes Classics and, in particular, Luc Varenne, a legend of Belgian radio.

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