N F S! N F S! N F S!

Copenhagen. Fine and sunny.

Today is the Team Presentation.

Team Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matérieux! 

The crowd cheers! Hoorah!

Team Trek-Segafredo!

Likwise!

N F S Grundtvig is getting nervous. Team Philosophe is due to be introduced, next but one.

And he is the only team member present.

He scans the crowd. 

Yes! Two riders in Team Philosophe colours are pushing through it, with their bicycles.

He recognises Vello from the Zoom meeting. 

He beckons.

They arrive.

Team Philosophe! announces the announcer. François-Marie Arouet, (cheers!), David Hume (louder cheers!), and the newcomer N F S Grundtvig, who is a native of Denmark! 

The crowd goes wild.

N F S! N F S! N F S!

N F S beams. Vello and David try not to look sour.

You don't get a long moment of glory. 

Team Philosophe trundles off.

Team Condor! calls the announcer.

This will be interesting. 

Are Sweezus and Arthur even there?

Yes! They wheel their bikes onto the stage. And yes! The third rider is Pablo.

Hoorah! The Danish crowd loves Pablo, although he is Chilean, mainly because of his tender poem, A Dog Has Died.

Jeg elsker din farve! cries someone.

Sweezus wonders what that means.

Time to go.

The last team to be presented is Team Ineos.

Yes. Them.

The British tourists cheer for their team.

As we may have noticed, the frog team (Romeo-Knowlesi) has not been presented. Nor has Baby Pierre.

This is not due to the following problems:

1. Team Romeo-Knowlesi have no bicycles

2. Baby Pierre is still in a box at the post office, waiting for pick-up. 

These are problems that will be resolved.

The reason is, these guys are not on the start list. 

Frogs and pebbles (and occasionally lobsters) always ride under the radar.