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All the President’s pen

PRESIDENT So that nice Chris Froome has won
WILLIAM WRIGHT another Tour de France! I’m actually
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Kennington really confused how I feel about this,
SE17 3SX because on one hand I’m amazed, and
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on the other really quite nonplussed.
CHAIRMAN I just looked up a 2007 quote by
ROY SAVERY then-British Cycling President Brian Cookson, who
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said he had revised his expectations of having a
SECRETARY British Tour winner down from 20 years to 10 years.
JEREMY WHITE And as we now know, Tour wins out of the last 10
101 Manor Park have been by a British rider. The nonplussed side of
London
SE13 5RQ me has kind of come to expect it now, which I know is
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TREASURER
RICHARD PREECE The French don’t seem to like Froomey and Team Sky
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07580 813114 the race has been drained out of it. Gone are the
mad ‘mano a mano’attacks on mountain stages ,
MEMBERSHIP and a long breakaway that actually succeeds is a
DAVID HAGGART
388 Elmers End Road rarity, as much because of race radios as any other
Beckenham reason. Team Sky won around 40% of all the prize
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money in this year’s Tour with their clinical approach
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and marginal gains, not to mention their purchasing
power! But the heroism and romance of Tours in days
gone by is replaced by simple endurance and attrition,
and sadly doesn’t seem quite as exciting.

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