Chris Froome (Team Sky) takes the win in the Saitama Criterium

クリストファー・フルーム（英国）がさいたまを制す

In the Saitama Criterium road race, Tour de France winner Chris Froome of Team Sky won.

The race was cheekily (?) billed the 22nd stage of the Tour de France, and some 200,000 turned out in suburban Tokyo on October 27 to enjoy the race.

The course was 2.6 km course was short and tight, and the event was hybrid of keirin and road racing.


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Tour de France Centennial Race in Saitama Japan October 2013

ツール・ド・フランス記念大会、埼玉で開催へ

To commemorate the 100th running of the Tour De France, a suburban prefecture in Japan is going to sponsor a race this October.

Saitama Prefecture, which is outside of Tokyo will host the race. About 50 cyclists will participate in the race, among them past champions.

As always, the Tour de France will be held in France in June and July.

Two months later, the race in Saitama will take place to mark the centennial of the French Tour de France.

The main venue will be the Saitama New Urban Center part of the city's Chuo Ward.

The city estimates 100,000 visitors will attend the race.

Saitama, long derided as "Da-Saitama" (which combines "dasai," uncool or unfashionable, and Saitama), is a semi-rural, semi-exurban sprawl criss-crossed by rail lines. It has been called the New Jersey of Japan.


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Tour de France Coverage from Kyoto

京都から観るツール・ド・フランス

For those interested in witty and incisive and offbeat commentary on the Tour de France, search no further.

An anonymous Kyoto writer provides a daily update with brio.

Even for those who find the idea of watching a group of doped up Europeans with a premature case of E.D riding $10,000 dollar bikes for three-weeks around France about as interesting as watching grapes grow - we do not count ourselves among these deluded ignoramuses - this blog may be just the thing.

Strategy, history, rivalry, technology, scandal - it's all here.

Vive le Tour, vive le peloton.

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