the lost boy
giro d'italia stage 11
The First Sector: A Prologue to a Very Bad Day
All men aspire to great things, but this particular young man does so bearing the burden of an entire nation. Every day, the papers proclaim his imminent success, the next Eddy Merckx they call him, as though there will ever be such a person in a sport so changed, so professionalized — less cowboy drama and …
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