Tuesday - Stage 10- without race radios

With the first Tour rest day out of the way, everyone was excited about getting back to racing. Well, almost everyone...The riders decided that they would take another day off so that's pretty much what they did.

Stage 10 turned out to be more of a bicycle parade versus race as the riders protested the Tour de France organization's decision to ban race radios for this stage of the Tour. Prior to the beginning of the Tour, the Tour de France organization thought it would be fun to try racing without race radios like they used to do in days of yore. I guess they thought that the radios give the riders too much advantage, so banning them for Stage 10 and 13 would bring some excitement back to the race.

Many of the teams felt that racing without the use of radios would be much too dangerous so they signed petitions, threatened to boycott, and voiced their concerns to the media all in hopes of getting the Tour organizers to change their minds.

The Tour organization wouldn't budge so the racers protested by taking a leisurely stroll through the French country side. People lining the streets expecting to see the peloton rush by were greeted with a much longer look as the peloton crept by in slow motion.

At one point, I think I saw a couple of the teams playing this:



I wonder if this will be enough to convince the Tour organization to allow the radios back in for Stage 13?