06/07/2014

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:00:11. > :00:16.Day two of the Tour de France in Yorkshire, and there have been

:00:17. > :00:35.It is being dismantled. We want to hold onto this weekend for ` bit

:00:36. > :00:38.hold onto this weekend for a bit longer. Let's try and look `t

:00:39. > :00:39.hold onto this weekend for ` bit longer. Let's try and look at some

:00:40. > :00:41.longer. Let's try and look `t some pictures of the spectacular scenes

:00:42. > :00:42.as the Raiders came into thhs great as the Raiders came into this great

:00:43. > :00:57.city. `` Riders. Organisers reckon

:00:58. > :00:59.around 2.5 million people h`ve turned out over the past two days to

:01:00. > :01:02.watch the world's biggest annual Outside the main towns and cities,

:01:03. > :01:05.tens of thousands packed the roadside

:01:06. > :01:07.alongside some of the most difficult But amid the excitement,

:01:08. > :01:13.there was disappointment as Yorkshire favourite Mark Cavendish

:01:14. > :01:16.was forced to pull out of the Tour. But first Clare Frisby reports from

:01:17. > :01:20.York, where the historic city gave Today, York's historic stredts came

:01:21. > :01:31.alive with the beauty of I have come from Baylor University

:01:32. > :01:36.in Texas just to see this. We've come from Devon,

:01:37. > :01:39.just north of Exeter, and wd're here Travelled on Friday and herd

:01:40. > :01:50.this morning watching the event. The atmosphere is electric `nd

:01:51. > :01:54.the schoolchildren are ecstatic. For many here today it is

:01:55. > :01:59.a once`in`a`lifetime experience I am so excited. I am shivering all

:02:00. > :02:07.over. I'm so excited. I'm so happy, I can't keep still.

:02:08. > :02:12.It was amazing, it was really cool. We are having so much fun.

:02:13. > :02:16.We saw them go past. Riders could be leaving with sore

:02:17. > :02:35.ears as well as aching legs. Le Tour is never going to have a

:02:36. > :02:38.more heightened sense of fashion than here. Roadside on the cobbled

:02:39. > :02:42.main streets. It was a deafening main streets. It was a deafdning

:02:43. > :02:49.noise when the main bunch came noise when the main bunch came

:02:50. > :02:53.through. A real effort for those who made it appear to be as close as

:02:54. > :02:59.they could to the action. What has it been like for you guys?

:03:00. > :02:59.Absolutely fantastic. Great noise all afternoon.

:03:00. > :03:03.It's quite a long way up. W`s all afternoon.

:03:04. > :03:06.It's quite a long way up. Was it It's quite a long way up. W`s it

:03:07. > :03:10.worth the effort? Absolutely. Doesn't it say just about everything

:03:11. > :03:16.we knew about the day the data to Kim passed our door.

:03:17. > :03:19.Well, one of the highlights of today was the spectacular climb

:03:20. > :03:21.up Holme Moss on the border between West Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

:03:22. > :03:25.It's more than 1700 feet high, and tens of thousands

:03:26. > :03:38.Our reporter Phil Bodmer joins us now live from there.

:03:39. > :03:46.If you look around now, you wouldn't know that if you look around now,

:03:47. > :03:53.you wouldn't know that a has reopened and apart from the odd

:03:54. > :03:56.caravan, it is quiet. Brian is editing a way for tonight's late

:03:57. > :04:03.special programme. It was wdt and special programme. It was wet and

:04:04. > :04:05.windy and cold and we thought we had chosen the wrong location btt how

:04:06. > :04:11.chosen the wrong location but how long could we be? They came in their

:04:12. > :04:15.thousands. It started off as a trickle and then turned into a

:04:16. > :04:20.torrent of people picking their way up to the summit of Holme Moss. As

:04:21. > :04:22.the pellets and came through, they cheered and screamed and shouted. I

:04:23. > :04:25.have never seen anything quite cheered and screamed and shouted. I

:04:26. > :04:28.have never seen anything quhte like have never seen anything quite like

:04:29. > :04:35.it. It was absolutely unbelhevable. The first inkling we got that the

:04:36. > :04:37.pellet was on its way where the helicopters that landed not too far

:04:38. > :04:43.away on the campsite. You c`n see away on the campsite. You c`n see

:04:44. > :04:45.them in the distance. They are them in the distance. They `re

:04:46. > :04:48.packing up and going home. It was packing up and going home. Ht was

:04:49. > :04:50.one of those events that will live long in the memory. A truly

:04:51. > :04:55.unforgettable day. Well dond to unforgettable day. Well done to

:04:56. > :04:58.those athletes who managed to get up to Holme Moss in about six linutes.

:04:59. > :05:00.to Holme Moss in about six minutes. They were going flat out. I couldn't

:05:01. > :05:04.imagine how hard they had bden imagine how hard they had been

:05:05. > :05:20.working but it was a day I will never forget. A bitter

:05:21. > :05:21.disappointment for Mark Cavendish disappointment for Mark Cavdndish

:05:22. > :05:24.who had to leave the race. Well, our Tour de France

:05:25. > :05:32.correspondent Matt Slater h`s Been talking to me about th`t.

:05:33. > :05:41.Anybody who knows anything about Anybody who knows anything `bout

:05:42. > :05:50.that would know that to pull out of the race must hurt. When I caught up

:05:51. > :05:53.with him, has sense of loss and sadness was clear.

:05:54. > :05:55.The whole way round it was full of people.

:05:56. > :05:57.Sometimes it's a little bit dangerous, to be fair.

:05:58. > :05:59.To see so many people out supporting was incredible.

:06:00. > :06:06.They really motivated me and that's why I was really determined.

:06:07. > :06:10.I wanted to win for all those people but that's not how it happened.

:06:11. > :06:17.But it's great to see that luch support for cycling in this country.

:06:18. > :06:24.Overall, this has been a huge success for Yorkshire, hasn't it?

:06:25. > :06:31.It is sad for him but let's not lose sight of the real story, Yorkshire.

:06:32. > :06:35.I've seen lots of tours and have been building this up for six

:06:36. > :06:44.been building this up for shx months. It surpassed my

:06:45. > :06:46.expectations. I spoke to a French journalist who said to me, H think

:06:47. > :06:52.there is a new home for cycling, it there is a new home for cycling, it

:06:53. > :06:54.is right here. This used to be a minority sport. We thought people

:06:55. > :07:05.wouldn't come out for a bikd race wouldn't come out for a bike race

:07:06. > :07:09.but they did. It was fantastic. Matt Slater reflecting on the Tour

:07:10. > :07:10.de France. The weather has been brilliant in Sheffield and it hasn't

:07:11. > :07:11.brilliant in Sheffield and ht hasn't rained once but how is looking for

:07:12. > :07:15.rained once but how is lookhng for the week ahead?

:07:16. > :07:19.It has been a real mixed bag of weather this weekend

:07:20. > :07:24.and tomorrow we start the next working week again fairly mhxed

:07:25. > :07:41.A mixture of sunny spells but also the risk of some showers

:07:42. > :07:49.Some of them could be on the sharp side and the odd rumble of

:07:50. > :07:51.And don't forget there's a special edition of Look North

:07:52. > :07:53.tonight looking back at the Tour De France weekend.

:07:54. > :08:07.If you have missed anything, I hope you haven't, do watch that. Here in

:08:08. > :08:11.Sheffield it is time to say goodbye. The pub behind me has had to shut

:08:12. > :08:14.because Sheffield has drunk its stride tonight. What a weekdnd

:08:15. > :08:16.because Sheffield has drunk its stride tonight. What a weekend that

:08:17. > :08:17.has been. When we will never forget. Goodbye.

:08:18. > :08:20.Imagine if you could talk to the animals.

:08:21. > :08:26.Zoologist Lucy Cooke is going to show us how.

:08:27. > :08:29.This is the first example we know of of infrared communication.

:08:30. > :08:37.This is amazing. So this is a dolphin greeting?

:08:38. > :08:40.Are you telling me we're really going to speak to a firefly?