Channel Tunnel over £3 million. Ten workers, eight of them British, were killed during construction between 1987 and 1993, most in the first few months of boring. A two-inch (50-mm) diameter pilot hole allowed the service tunnel to break through without ceremony on 30 October 1990. On 1 December 1990, Englishman Graham Fagg and Frenchman Phillippe Cozette broke through the service tunnel with the media watching. Eurotunnel completed the tunnel on time, and it was officially opened, one year later than originally planned, by Queen Elizabeth II and the French president, François Mitterrand, in a ceremony held in Calais on 6 May
Cycling in the Channel Tunnel cycle the 100-kilometre round-trip from Folkestone to Coquelles and back again. The journey took around five hours to complete, while wearing full overalls and needing to carry respirators. In November 1993, journalists Nick Dutton-Taylor and Damon Brown used the same Saracen bicycles as other construction workers to cycle into the tunnel for an article in "Mountain Biking UK". They were trained and accompanied by the cycling trainer Clive, but not allowed to go the full way through. On the night of 2/3 December 1994, a group of professional and semi-professional cyclists went road bicycle racing from London to Paris in