How to solve a problem like Team Sky
The Tour de France has a problem. A Sky-shaped problem. It was visible out on the roads of France this yearContinue Reading
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Tour de France 2018 Stage 21: Geraint Thomas – man of the people
“Y’see how uncomfortable he looks, drinking champagne on the bike and taking the applause of the crowd,” said the WelshContinue Reading
Tour de France 2018 Stage 20: Big feelings
He was collared by a press man and asked a question. He opened his mouth and the lip trembled. He hid his face beneath team issue baseball cap (should be a casquette, really, but whatever…) and sobbed, squeezing out a manly “aww jeez…I don’t know what’s wrong with me,” and then he sobbed a bit more.
Tour de France 2018 Stage 19: The Pyrenean drama-o-meter
It would’ve been easy to lapse into terrible cliché as the race rolled out from the holy town of Lourdes.Continue Reading
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