LE TOUR DISPATCH 20 & 21

_{The yellow curtain has fallen and the show is over... Yes folks, it’s the bittersweet moment when we bid farewell to a Grand Tour. A part of our personality for the best part of a month, it’s difficult to say goodbye, but with a final weekend full of excitement and a finish that was a little different, there were stories that needed conclusions and a couple of new ones to be written.}

Stage 20 was the Tour’s final mountain stage and despite the best-laid plans, the race leader’s promise to let the breakaway go proved somewhat problematic. Reaction to the racing, and reflection on the Tour careers of two riders for whom the race is a big part of their story.

_{They think it’s all over - it is now. Reflecting on the past three weeks of unforgettable racing and rounding up a day against the clock on the streets of Monaco and Nice, we play you out of this year's Tour de France with stage 21’s Dispatch.}

Thank you so much for coming along on this journey with us. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading the Dispatches and for my regular subscribers, rest assured normal service will now be resumed and you won’t have me popping up in your inbox on a (almost) daily basis.

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Au revoir, mes amis!