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We’ve also been embedded with Visma-Lease a Bike at Amstel Gold Race, looked into Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe’s ambitious plans to win the Tour, explored the small towns of the Tour and learned about the street photography of Robert Doisneau, whose images of bikes and Paris are iconic.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe Tour de France is the greatest bike race in the world, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRouleur\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the finest cycling magazine in the world. 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The Tour can bring hordes of visitors – and their tourism euros – to an otherwise quiet town. But locals seem more invested in their passion for cycling than the financial gains. Sophie Stuber rode through a few of the smaller towns on this year’s Tour de France: Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, Semur-en-Auxois and Gruissan, talking to local officials and hotel owners about what it means to bring the Tour to their region and whether they do it for the potential economic benefits, or the pure love of the sport. 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At all times he makes people around him feel like one of his group of friends. Although, Isaac also feels, that’s the general feeling that UAE Team Emirates transmits despite living in a universe capitalised at all times by a cyclist as unique as Tadej Pogačar.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eStoried Classics\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eMICHAEL MØRKØV\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeraint Thomas is one of the peloton’s most experienced riders, having signed what he thinks is probably his last two-year contract with Ineos Grenadiers, the team he has represented since their inception in 2010. Thomas came a narrow second in the Giro last year, and is returning to the race he describes as one for the purists, before going on to tackle the Tour de France. 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