The wait is nearly over, with June 8th now confirmed as the date the new Netflix series on the Tour de France will start streaming. The series - Tour de France: Unchained - was shot on last year's race and follows the event from start to finish through the fortunes of a number of featured riders and teams.
After the success of the Movistar Team series, 'The Least Expected Day', and given what the Netflix series 'Drive to Survive' has done for the image and popularity of Formula 1, the new Tour series has been eagerly awaited for well over a year.
One real boost for the series is that Jumbo Visma was one of the teams that allowed the cameras behind the scenes. That means we will have access to the dramatic events that resulted in Jonas Vingegaard and Primož Roglič taking on Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) and wrestling the yellow jersey from him, even though Roglič crashed so badly and was eventually forced out.
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And the access to Jumbo Visma will also offer additional insight into Wout van Aert's incredible Tour, winning three stages, finishing 2nd on four, winning the points jersey and keeping Vingegaard's yellow jersey hopes alive over the pavé on stage 5 to Wallers-Arenberg when he came a cropper and Pogačar got away from him.
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UAE Team Emirates was one of the teams that did not sign up to the show. But the teams that did, and so whose riders and staff will feature, include: EF Education-EasyPost, Ineos Grenadiers, Groupama-FDJ, Alpecin-Deceuninck, Bora-hansgrohe and AG2R Citroën.
There will, sadly, be no Irish riders in the series as Eddie Dunbar wasn't picked by Ineos Grenadiers while Ryan Mullen and Sam Bennett were also left out of the Bora-hansgrohe Tour line-up last year. Ben Healy was only in his first year with EF Education-EasyPost so also did not feature.
However, that shouldn't lessen the enjoyment of Irish fans who tune into the series and hopefully Bennett and Mullen will be in the thick of the action this year winning stages.
