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Tour enthusiasm explained by Yorkshire cycling boom

11 July 2014
Thousands of Yorkshire people turned out to witness the start of the Tour de France last week
Thousands of Yorkshire people turned out to witness the start of the Tour de France last week

 

DESCRIBING THE start of the latest Tour de France in the hitherto unknown French ‘department’ of Yorkshire, The Northern Echo newspaper waxed lyrical both on the success of the event itself and on what this said about the British appetite for cycling. Describing the ‘Grand Depart’ as “half giant street party – half celebration of [the] growing strength of cycling”, the paper went on to say that “no one could have anticipated crowds like the ones...

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