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  "textContent": "The Men’s Tour de France began as a newspaper stunt and became the most famous bike race in the world. It has survived scandal, war, commercial reinvention, national obsession, doping crises, television transformation and the rise of a truly global peloton. Across more than a century, it has also remained surprisingly faithful to its original […]\n\nThe post A brief history of the Men’s Tour de France appeared first on ProCyclingUK.",
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