Tour de France 2002 - 28/7/02
On my first full day of France I got to see the Maillot Jaune. Hung out with the most famous American group complete with Uncle Sam, a blow up shark and lot's of USPS stuff.  Lance brought it home in fine style.
If you can find the jersey you can find Lance, these guys were going fast
Here's what it looked like before the crowds. Beautiful no?
If you were up at 5:30 am like I was before I left, you recognize these guys (the humans, not the shark)
Maybe one of the last photos of Jaja (in the polka-dot jersey) in a tour.
Most of the time, this is how we saw Lance.  Luckily on the last day they go around the champs 10 times.  I feel for the guys that waited all day on the Mountain Stages and only saw him for a few seconds.
It was a melee' of USPS, yellow and every kind of jersey you can imagine.  Serious Nationalism going on here
See the Police in front of us.  Funny they let everyone else through the gates but kept careful eyes on us.  I mean there were probably 1 million folks there and they chose to watch us!
These guys are my heroes.  They followed Lance in a Bus for two weeks, were in all the magazines, knew the OlnTV guys and wore the same shirts for two weeks.