Tour de France: Drugs cheats have made the event and cycling unwatchable

By Mark Bode
Updated August 1 2018 - 8:06am, first published 7:00am
THE VERDICT: "To enjoy the Tour de France is to be either suspended from or indifferent to the reality of the situation."
THE VERDICT: "To enjoy the Tour de France is to be either suspended from or indifferent to the reality of the situation."

The Tour de France yellow jersey once evoked in me a visceral response similar to NRL jerseys when I was a youngster watching TV from my Central Queensland outpost. I would surrender to the brutality of a prolonged mountain climb, finding beauty in those tortured limbs.

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