I love this bike race, but how can it be called the tour of France when it is in Yorkshire and the Eastern counties, it has amazed me just how many Bits have encompassed the Tour, the one thing that has irritated me is when the cameras go to the helicopter and show some British / English architecture they insist on using French language descriptions of the House / Church, I am interested in seeing what is dominating the English countryside but I do not want to be told in French just what I am looking at, I understand that they do this because there is a predominance of French riders in the race and the fact that it is a tour of France, so what riles me about this?, simple really if it was a British race in France they would not under any circumstances do descriptions in English, I remember not to long ago the French government removed all English words from the French dictionary, they do not like English and will only use it if really pushed, if they want to run the tour in England I would have hoped that they would have respected the English language as they expect us to respect theirs when in their country.
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