There are times when, even through a television screen, the predominant emotion informing the character of a bike race is physically palpable. As if by some strange osmosis, the moods of all one hundred and seventy-something riders in the peloton all assimilate into one collective feeling, and to watch the race means you can’t help but notice it.
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