Nice try

Never repeat the Tour’s Nice-finish experiment, says Ned

I recently had a surprisingly blunt exchange of views with one of my closest friends in the cycling world. He expressed a view that the men’s Tour de France finishing in Nice was a brilliant innovation, and that he was rather dreading the expected return to Paris. Obviously, I thought, the man has taken leave of his senses. It was awful. He is wrong, and I am very right. I accept that there were mitigating circumstances that led to us reaching such differing conclusions. It is worth conceding that, in the interests of transparency, that I actually never went to Nice this year. Instead, the entire ITV operation was held at arm’s length from the Promenade des Anglais. We stayed not in Nice, but in nearby Antibes (sounds fantastic, but…

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Cycling Plus (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2024

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