Stage six profile
Lisieux could well have proved a happy hunting ground for Jan Ullrich had he not been suspended by his team. His old T-Mobile guru Walter Godefroot won here at the height of his career in 1970.

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This is the first time we've ever seen Le Tour live. We watched Stage 6 from Lisieux to Vitre as the route took the riders within 15kms or so of our house. We had pre-selected our spot, as the road pased through La Foret des Andaines, between La Ferte Mace and Bagnoles de L'Orne. The authorities had put up barriers on an access road about 2.5kms from the actual route but we managed to find our way round them, as did about 30 other cars, and we ended up parking about 500 metres from the route. We settled in with a picnic lunch...and wine, of course, and were treated to the magnificent spectacle of the "caravane", the procession of over 2000 and sometimes bizarre advertising and sponsors' vehicles which took about 45 mins to pass us, with young people throwing freebies to the crowd. Amongst them were those notorious huge green cardboard hands, one of which, waved by a spectator, had injured a rider on a previous stage. Fortunately, 3 riders had made a breakaway 15kms earlier so we had the excitement of seeing them and then, 4 minutes later, the peloton. No matter that it was all over in a flash with no chance to pick out ones favourites and to judge the tactics, the sheer thrill of the spectacle was wonderful. All the crowd were cheering like mad. The army of outriders, support cars, camera bikes, helicopters and, above all the wonderfully exciting spectacle of watching the peloton approach up the long straight, like some menacing army in oursuit of its enemy, will remain long in the memory. Of course, if one wants to understand what is going on and follow the race properly one watches it on TV, which is what we did when we got home, but for sheer excitement, you can't beat "being there".
Martin & Sue, Orgeres La Roche, Mayenne, FRANCE

We went to the post-Tour criterium in Lisieux last year - where the stars of the Tour do a few laps of a town or city centre alongside local riders - and get cheered for their efforts. It was a great atmosphere with thousands of people enjoying an atmospheric evening of racing outside the bars in the narrow streets. Well worth going especially if the school holidays stop you getting to the France before the Tour finishes!
Jonathan, London

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bereket, Asmara ,Eritrea

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