6 July 2010 - It is almost an overkill: the Football World Cup, Wimbledon and now the Tour de France. The Tour is not a major event in Asia, but it is a big one in Europe. The Tour de France started this year in Rotterdam, so kinda Tour D'Hollande. The country is completely football crazy at the moment, but one million people showed up to see the peloton cycle their first "etappe" and another one million Dutch viewers watched on TV from home. The Tour crossed the southern provinces of the country, which are traditionally a bit "cycling-mad" (please do not ask me why? - maybe because it is close to Belgium? no, not really a convincing reason). The mayor of Rotterdam Ahmed Aboutaleb called the start a "historical event", so maybe he needs to return to school for some history lessons. On Sunday the Tour left Holland for Belgium - but nobody called that historical.
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