An official trailer of the much anticipated Netflix Tour de France documentary has emerged, showing how the series will portray the suffering and celebration of professional cycling by combining television and on-bike video footage with moments captured by roadside fans and on team buses and intimate behind-the-scenes interviews.
A few days ago the Netflix listing suggested the series will be called: Tour de France: Unchained. The trailer videos ends with a wrench title of Tour de France: Au cœur du peloton.
Whatever the final title, the series is expected to consist of eight 45-minute episodes, with several sources saying the series will be aired in June, just before the start of the 2023 Tour de France. It will be shown in 190 territories around the world.
Other cycling documentaries are soon to air, with Jumbo-Visma releasing ‘All In: Team Jumbo-Visma‘, on Amazon Prime in the Netherlands this week, while Soudal-QuickStep have also confirmed that a documentary about their 2022 season will be aired on Amazon Prime.
Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters presented the two-minute Tour de France series video after giving a keynote speech on Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Cyclingnews was able to obtain a copy of the video (see the embedded Twitter video (opens in new tab) below).
The Tour de France Netflix documentary is here! Well, a trailer of the series is, at least. Check out a clip of the action here(📹 Mobile World Congress) pic.twitter.com/dFXuVchl3pMarch 1, 2023
It opens with shots from the series and Groupama-FDJ team manager Marc Madiot saying: “You are soldiers, you are warriors. When you pull on a jersey, you become another person.”
It also shows brief moments of each episode, as the likes of Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) and Bob Jungels (riding for AG2R Citroën in 2022) win stages, as Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) struggles and Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) goes on to defeat Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates).
There are also comments from EF Education-EasyPost team manager Jonathan Vaughters and a French voice that says: “The Tour de France is very simple: It’s a bike race, every day, over 21 stages. It’s an enormous circus that travels around the country. It’s the world’s toughest race.”
Each of the eight episodes focuses on the eight teams that signed up to the project: AG2R Citroën, Alpecin-Fenix, Bora-Hansgrohe, EF Education-EasyPost, Groupama-FDJ, Ineos Grenadiers, Jumbo-Visma and
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