Marxism meets meteorology on Tour de France stage two's Great Belt Bridge

The peloton will ride across the Great Belt Bridges on the way to Nyborg on Saturday afternoon, with wind forecast

Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme in front of the Great Belt Bridge
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The French Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre divided space into three distinct but linked categories: the perceived, conceived and lived; or the physical, mental and social. 

One can know what part of the course of the Tour de France actually looks like, what it actually is, this is the perceived space. Next, there is the conception of the space, what one thinks it will be like, before actually being there, this is the conceived space. Finally, there is the lived, the social, what it actually is like once one has been there, once people are there.

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Adam Becket
News editor

Adam is Cycling Weekly’s news editor – his greatest love is road racing but as long as he is cycling on tarmac, he's happy. Before joining Cycling Weekly he spent two years writing for Procycling, where he interviewed riders and wrote about racing, speaking to people as varied as Demi Vollering to Philippe Gilbert. Before cycling took over his professional life, he covered ecclesiastical matters at the world’s largest Anglican newspaper and politics at Business Insider. Don't ask how that is related to cycling.