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Tuning the Radio TdFF23-36
I'm sorry, the title was just too tempting. The UCI Road World Champion, Annemiek Van Vleutin (Movistar) and the defending champion of the first Tour de France Femmes, had been raising her arm to call up her team car. It was first suspected that one of her tires were going flat, but that turned out not to be the case. As she rode out of the intermediate sprint town of Hameau de Rastel, apparently, her race radio had failed. Unable to tell the team what was wrong, or to find out information from the team director, she dropped back to get it fix. The mechanic must have been relieved not to have to put his fingers anywhere near the spinning wheels to set things right. With no time outs, and the commissares being rather strict, the mechanic had to do the repair while out the window of the fast moving car.