One Day Forward Film: Ordinary Race Cyclists Ride the Tour de France

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

One day in front of the video

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

About eight ordinary “kiwis” (New Zealanders) who did not know each other before the start of the 2018 Tour de France and share nothing but the joy of cycling, which brings them together to cover the Tour route the next day from the pros. Already in the first few minutes of the movie, it becomes clear that most of them are more of an average road cyclist than an aspiring road bike enthusiast.

With good footage, the film documents how the eight Rouleur Tours cyclists tackle the course, 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 through that,” says one Driver later on a news program. The documentary shows how the eight people became a team and how the inevitable crises prevail.

In addition, the team members raised about NZ$90,000 for the New Zealand Mental Health Foundation. She is committed to mental health and helps with specific advice about mental illness and lobbying for the cause. One of the team’s 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 less 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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