Gerry Ryan and Simon Gerrans at the 2013 Tour de France I am standing with Gerry Ryan on the Champs Elysees at the final stage of the 2010 Tour de France. It is one of the most magnificent boulevards in the world and now the permanent home of the Tour’s grand finale. The riders are about to begin their dozen laps up and down the Champs, around the Arc de Triomphe and through the Louvre. In a few hours a stage will be built in the middle of this famous avenue and Alberto Conta