One Day Ahead Film: Ordinary race cyclists ride the Tour de France

One Day Ahead tells the story of 8 amateur cyclists from New Zealand attempting to ride the entire course of the 2018 Tour de France one day before the professional race. It can now be viewed on YouTube for the first time.

One day in front of the video

A caption at the bottom of the New Zealand movie One Day Ahead, which has been streaming the video for about a month, reads, “Sometimes YouTube suggestions reveal real gold.” And there we join.

About eight normal “kiwis” (New Zealanders) who didn’t know each other before the start of the 2018 Tour de France and share nothing but the fun of cycling, which brings them together to cover the Tour’s next day course from the Pros. Already in the first few minutes of the movie, it becomes clear that most of them are more average road rider than aspiring road bike aficionados.

With good footage, the film documents how the eight cyclists of the Rouleur Tours tackle the track, teaming up to finish one of the toughest cycling races in the world.

“Personally, as an individual, I wouldn’t have been able to get past that,” says one Driver later in the news program. The documentary shows how the eight became a team and how inevitable crises prevail.

In addition, the team members raised about NZ$90,000 for the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand. She is committed to mental health and helps provide specific advice about mental illness and lobbying for the cause. One of the team drivers suffered from depression at some point in his life, and the film also describes his personal difficulties adjusting to the team situation. So the whole movie is not a documentary about cycling and more a story about people and their sportsmanship against the backdrop of the Tour de France.

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