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Tour de France: Unchained
Tour de France : Au cœur du peloton
2023 · TV series · documentary · 3 seasons
Through tears and triumph, this series follows several cycling teams as they compete in the 2022 installment of the world's most grueling bike race.
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If you think you have no interest in cycle road racing I strongly recommend watching the Netflix series Tour de France Unchained. I watched it on a whim with no interest whatsoever in road racing and I found it addictive and it got me hooked on the sport (to the extent I can be hooked - UCI is a garbage organisation that makes it as difficult as possible to actually watch it).
Start with series 1, even though it's 2 years out of date. They explain how the sport works, and they skip over this in series 2. It's important information.
I wonder whether Netflix will boost American interest in the Tour de France. Something of the kind happened with Formula 1. Interest in it here (I’m in NYC) was generally so-so, whether or not one of the races occurred here. But the 2019 launch of the Netflix documentary series Formula 1: Drive to Survive roughly coincided with the expansion of American F1 races, of which I think there are three this season, and there are now American F1 fangirls. Re the TdF, America hasn’t paid much attention in the past except when a major contender was an American, as with Greg LeMond, Lance Armstrong, and a few others. Now, however, Netflix is running a documentary series about this race, called Tour de France: Unchained. That may do the trick. On the other hand, a TdF race will never occur here, so it remains to be seen whether interest will rise regardless of that.
Fangirls ref: https://airmail.news/issues/2023-5-27/girls-just-want-to-f1 [subscriber only]