Who was the Tour de France Legend? and the Queen does what??!

Below is my favourite video from The Tour de France 2014.

Breakfast moonshine selfie

The Tour de France was in some way a difficult year, maybe a transitional year. It started in the UK, and received huge huge crowds, helped by some excellent weather. In fact, the crowds were in some ways too large - speedy pelotons and small roads packed with fans, coupled with fans who may have been somewhat new to the sport - plus an unfortunate coinciding with "The Selfie" phenomenon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfie) - meant we had several incidents with cyclists colliding with too-eager fans. Thankfully, there was little harm, but it could've been much worse.



A rare spark of daylight in this maelstrom was the video above - one eager fan, with a camera mounted to a helmet, held it too close to the fire and it was knocked off. Kevin Reza from Team Europcar swept up the helmet (at an incredible speed and no small amount of bike handling skill), and took it on a ride through the peloton and finally to the Team Europcar team car. In a happy ending, the camera and helmet made their way back to the owner via the wonders of twitter (@KevReza).



Queen in selfie photobomb shocker!

Queen selfie photobomb!

Meanwhile, in other selfie news, our Queen, Gawd bless her, photobombed a selfie of some australian hockey players during last month's Commonwealth Games - that has to be The Greatest Photobomb Ever (close meme).



Chris Hoy in identity question

Finally, also at the Commonwealth Games, Sir Chris Hoy was almost turned away from entry to the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome, after being asked for ID by one of the doormen. Absolute classic :)