The Badger, the Professor and the teenager: France’s long wait for a Tour champion | William Fotheringham
The hype around Paul Seixas is fully justified as the 19-year-old bids to end four decades of French disappointment When you write about the Tour de France for the best part of (deep breath) 40 years, the same themes recur, constantly evolving and mutating. The contorted fortunes of France’s finest cyclists have been a constant narrative since 4 July 1990, when the late Laurent Fignon put foot to tarmac in the feed zone somewhere in the bocage between Avranches and…
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