 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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BLINK AND YOU'LL MISS THIS TOUR DE FRANCE.(Sports)(Column)
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Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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July 25, 2003| Author:
Lincicome^ , Bernie
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Byline: Bernie Lincicome
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
VILLAGRAINS, France -- Country roads, take me homme.
So this is the Tour de France. This dusty intersection of two-lane roads 35 miles south of Bordeaux is the Tour de France. It is the same as in the Alps or along the coast or through the fields of sunflowers that are everywhere in France.
It is where a nation inexplicably stops and waits and shares national pride in the fact that their count...
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