{"id":152368,"date":"2017-07-21T02:25:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T02:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=152368"},"modified":"2017-07-21T13:27:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T13:27:19","slug":"10-photos-prove-tour-de-france-best-sports-event-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2017\/07\/21\/10-photos-prove-tour-de-france-best-sports-event-world\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Photos, Which Prove that Tour de France Is the Best Sports Event in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Many true fans would go above and beyond to show support for their favourite team or sport. Painted faces and crazy costumes, hours spent in the queues to get the best tickets, or frenetic puffing into vuvuzelas. But with Tour de France you always have the feeling that the connection is much deeper. Sometimes you even think \u201chave they gone too far with this\u201d? Let\u2019s embrace the fact that Tour de France has got some of the most faithful fans of all the sports. Here are ten photos which support our theory.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152376\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152376\" style=\"width: 1045px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/1111.JPG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152376\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/1111.JPG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1045\" height=\"582\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmers welcome the riders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152371\" style=\"width: 1023px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/t4Fj5wV.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152371\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/t4Fj5wV.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1023\" height=\"573\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What do you mean by \u201cwe have to rent a venue\u201d, honey? There\u2019s Tour stage running through the city that day and we\u2019re all gonna be there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152374\" style=\"width: 1048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/Capture.JPG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152374\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/Capture.JPG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1048\" height=\"674\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dude, that\u2019s not Moby!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152377\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/a83paajbum7x-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152377\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/a83paajbum7x-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don\u2019t even try to say that you wouldn\u2019t do it as well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152378\" style=\"width: 833px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/profimedia-0198711289.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152378\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/profimedia-0198711289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"833\" height=\"1250\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allez, Wiggo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152379\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152379\" style=\"width: 1250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/profimedia-0017490412.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152379\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/profimedia-0017490412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1250\" height=\"854\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ouch!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152380\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152380\" style=\"width: 1250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/profimedia-0231287792.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152380\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/profimedia-0231287792.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1250\" height=\"812\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Didi Senft is probably the biggest fan of Le Tour and now he also has the world\u2019s biggest velocipede.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152381\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152381\" style=\"width: 1250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/profimedia-0204749841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152381\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/profimedia-0204749841.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">To celebrate the Tour de France, Yorkshire knitting groups produced knitted bikes which were displayed in Sheffield Cathedral for the duration of the race.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152383\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152383\" style=\"width: 1042px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/55554.JPG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152383\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/55554.JPG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1042\" height=\"746\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Le Tour it usually is a life-long romance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152382\" style=\"width: 598px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/44848.JPG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152382\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/06\/44848.JPG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"595\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And to be honest, sometimes you don\u2019t even have a choice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many true fans would go above and beyond to show support for their favourite team or sport. 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