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Can't they afford fact checkers at l'Equipe? (Merckx was punched in 75, not 74).
I know British journalism isn't always of the highest quality, but the stylised prose that French sportswriters use is, to quote Francois Thomazeau, bullshit.
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"I know British journalism isn't always of the highest quality."
That's an understatement: I bought a copy of Cycle Sport a month or so ago, for the low down on the stages in the TdF, and the standard of writing was just awful - the use of punctuation seemed almost arbitrary. (By contrast, a preview magazine of the European Championship was very well written.)
The_Kindness_of_Trees
Rather curious L'Equipe article wistfully musing on the mystery of Chris Froome, bemoaning the missed opportunity on Ventoux for him to be liked, English translation here:
http://julesark.tumblr.com/
It's a very wordy way to say that Froome is a bit odd.