Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of the Danish capital to experience the magic of the Tour up close.
Not so many people were remembered since the test left London in 2007.
There is no stadium in the world that can accommodate so many people. There were hundreds of thousands of people, arriving from all parts of Denmark, but also from Sweden, almost side by side by road and by train. A start of the Tour with so much public was not remembered since the test assaulted London over there 2007. Passion, debauchery, dedication, faith, emotions and queues, many queues, ordered as in few other parts of the world, to buy in the official stores of the French round scattered throughout Copenhagen, whatever it was as long as it had the label of the Grande Boucle, from a fridge magnet, to caps and, of course, the genuine yellow jersey.
There was someone, because he has a soul, even if it’s metal, who until this Friday had lived totally outside the Tour, standing there, on the sea, sweating on hot days or freezing when the sea water almost freezes. Was the little mermaid, perhaps the world’s best-known monument in the Danish capital. He wanted the organization that the initial time trial of the Tour passed through the entire town to show the planet the architectural wonders of the city.
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And, of course, the runners had to pass by the little mermaid that until this Friday it seemed that he had not found out that the Tour was visiting his city. But she appeared in the morning with a bouquet of yellow flowers and many more placed as if it were a tapestry over the water, because she could not live outside the cycling party.
Hours in front of the fences
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Were hundreds of thousands, who spent hours posted by the fences, who got wet when the downpour fell on the streets of Copenhagen. Such was the noise caused by the crowd that many streets beyond where the Tour passed or at the other end of the canals the screams could be heard.
The city was filled with colors alluding to the Tour; shops, bars, restaurants and even the balconies of the neighbors who knew that yesterday the Danish capital had made an appointment with history.