Peek behind the cameras as ITV team gear up to give their bittersweet final Tour
VSQUARED TV - Gary Imlach, who has brought the UK Tour coverage for 35 years, presents on the Champs-Élysées in 1995 ‘It’s a threeweek drama delivered in daily episodes. Anybody can enjoy it’ 27 Jun 2025 - The Guardian Luke McLaughlin When the last rider rolls across the Tour de France finish line in Paris on 27 July it will mark more than the end of the world’s most prestigious bike race. Once Gary Imlach and team have wrapped up, it will conclude four decades of free-to-air Tour coverage for British TV viewers. While the sport, and the technology used to broadcast it, have transformed since the 1980s, the excellence of the ITV programme (previously on Channel 4) has been constant. Just as British and Irish interest in the race has cycled through eras – from Sean Kelly to David Millar , to Chris Boardman and later Mark Cavendish , to Team Sky of Wiggins, Froome and Thomas – the on-air cast has naturally evolved. Nick Owen and Richard Keys first presented the highlights: Owen i...