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Tour de France: the post-mortem

This should be a feel-good story but it doesn�t feel very good writing it. Cycling�s reputation, fragile at best, has been further fractured, almost fatally, by the events of the past seven days.

There's always a sense of melancholy when a road trip ends, especially one that started with great expectations.