It's only the second day of the Tour but the wind could utterly dash the hopes of a number of GC hopefuls here.
That finish, eh? Mûr-de-Bretagne twice is something special, we get to enjoy a second day of virtual Spring Classics, thank you ASO! Yesterday's favorites are favorite again but could El Imbatido Alejandro Valverde come up with yet another trick here? Peter Sagan will have something to prove here as well. And Dan Martin won here in 2018 so he has definitely circled today. We could be in for a very special day.
Winner: Mathieu van der Poel!
Pleumeur-Bodou
World famous since the commissioning of the space telecommunications centre and its famous radome which was used to transmit the first satellite television images. This historic site is now called the Radome Park and brings together several major players in scientific culture and family tourism in Brittany.
The Radome
At the heart of an 11-hectare park, the Radome is an enormous sphere 50 m high. Accompanied by a 3,000 m² exhibition building, it is today a unique ensemble: the largest European cultural and leisure centre dedicated to the world of telecommunications. It replaces the space telecommunications centre, which ceased operations in 1985.
In 1956, the first submarine telephone cable between France and the United States had a capacity of only 36 channels. To transmit television across the sea, a magnetic tape had to be recorded and sent by air. In 1965, the Americans launched the first geostationary satellite, Intelsat 1. Their Telstar 1 (star phone) project planned to send pictures and sound between countries via space satellites. Receiving stations had to be built on both sides of the Atlantic. On the initiative of Pierre Marzin, then director of the CNET (Centre national d'études des télécommunications), the Centre de télécommunications spatiales de Pleumeur-Bodou (CTS) was created and inaugurated by General de Gaulle on 19 October 1962. The first satellite transmission in France took place on 11 July 1962 and it was thanks to the Radome that the French were able to see man's first steps on the moon in 1969.
Side note: I've been binging For All Mankind and it's great, just up my alley.
Yay! Thanks for the game, Corran! : D
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