For this series, rather than posting every day for a week, Im going to do one post each week hopefully every Thursday for the next five weeks
LAuto s readership had risen from 25,000 per day to over 130,000 during the Tour. And just as doping scandals have dogged the sport, bringing down heroic Lance Armstrong in the process, since at least the 1960s, various forms cheating were endemic to the Tour from the start, surrounded, as James Stout writes, by an omerta. Historian Peter Cossins describes in The First Tour de France how first winner Maurice Garin supposedly formed a team, against the rules, and turned them into his domestiques
Crafted with precision in the U.S.A
Thomas testing driver shafts at the Fortinet Championship
Id like to say that I do not take any of this for granted