I don't like it, I love it: Cricket at the Tour de France

Adam Becket recounts one of his oddest days covering cycling - so far

Tour de France Carcassonne
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Recently, for Cycling Weekly's review of the year, I was asked to think about the odder moments of my year on the road covering racing.

There was the time my phone broke while I was interviewing Mike Teunissen at Paris-Nice, meaning I had to drive to the top of the Col de Turini without a phone, and then had to rush back to Nice to buy a French phone that evening. There was the moment it snowed in Ghent ahead of the Tour of Flanders, putting the whole event into doubt. There was the day I spent in a team car at the Tour of Britain, which involved a crash and an encounter with sheep.

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