Holy heck, so this is what it feels like when the pros ride through those throngs of fans that swarm around them on the Grand Tour stages?!

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‘Yeah Jai’, radios his DS, ‘doing good mate, just stay calm there…’

Good luck, the eye in the storm maybe, but this looks, sounds and must feel mental

But, as you can see, for those that aren’t putting in efforts that’d make mere mortals bleed from the eye sockets, there is fun tp be had, as demonstrated by Van Der Poel and his mate who grabs a Colombian flag from a fan.

Others high five fans and it’s convinced me, I have to go experience this. Brilliant.