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Shoddy’s TDF recon: The Grand Colombier, a TDF battleground
I’m sat in front of my computer writing this story feeling like I’m in pieces, or in more pieces than I expected to be. Legs are sore, brain’s not firing at its usual capacity, and the upper body slumped. I’m in way, way worse condition than I should be, or to be precise hoped to …
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The Tour de France has put an end to podium girls
The Tour de France will do away with its traditional pair of podium hostesses, Tour director Christian Prudhomme announced at a press conference Wednesday. Instead, the Tour will have a male host on one side of the podium and a hostess the other side. “You used to see the champion surrounded by two hostesses, with …
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French President Macron buries any hope of a mid-summer Tour de France
In an address to the nation on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macrons buried any hope of the Tour de France continuing as planned, stating that no events with a large audience will go ahead until mid-July, at the earliest. Macron said that hospitals in parts of France, including Paris, remain saturated. “The system is under …
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Could a women’s Tour de France be on the way?
Le Télégramme reports that Tour de France organizer Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) is working on bringing back a women’s Tour de France. “We are seriously working on a project for a women’s stage race. We want to organise it in the short term,” Tour director Christian Prudhomme told Le Télégramme. “We want to talk to …
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