Wednesday, July 16, 2025

The Tour's dirty secret

A friend by the roadside

Canadian cyclist Michael Woods tried to ride with a breakaway group the other day.  Got lots of TV coverage for a while, and then seemed to vanish, ending up well back in the crowd again -- though not before scoring enough climbing points to rank him number three among climbers in this year's Tour so far.

Now Woods's blog explains what happened. You might say it's about circulation on Tour: not traffic circulation but something more internal. More about number two than number three.  Read it and laugh here. It's what Woods calls a Dumoulin moment -- an aspect of long distance bike racing I had never contemplated.

 
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