The Tour de France is held together by a team who work in the shadows
There are 22 teams at this year’s Tour de France, but there is another that rides by night. “We work in the shadows,” says Luis Gomez. “But somehow we feel a strong part of the race.”
Gomez’s team includes 72 staff in 46 trucks who build the world’s biggest cycling race, pack it all up and rebuild each day, from the ‘depart village’ to the finish line and everything in between. They cover a total 150,000km across three weeks, from tiny villages deep in the Massif to sweeping coastlines; from high Alpine roads to the heart of Paris.
They work in the dark, in whatever conditions the volatile French summer throws up, often on small rural roads and winding mountain tracks. Planned routes quickly change in the Tour de France for any number of reasons – hailstorms, mudslides, the customary farmers’ protest – and the team have to react to whatever the Tour throws at them.
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