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Simon Collins

Simon Collins

24 April 2020

11:00 PM

24 April 2020

11:00 PM

After the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics, the postponement of the 2020 Tour de France couldn’t have taken many people by surprise: it would have been very odd if a country which has banned daytime jogging because of Covid-19 had then green-lighted a competition which depends on participants moving in tighter formations than super-glued sardines.

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