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The Tour de France is a week too long

12 Aug 2026

Fourteen days of July

Somewhere in the third week of this year's Tour de France, I noticed something that slightly horrified me: I'd stopped watching.

Photo credit: Visma Lease a bike
Photo credit: Visma Lease a bike

Not officially. Officially the race was on, the way it's on every July afternoon of my adult life. But I was half there. Checking the phone. Wandering off to make coffee duri…

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