Terrible Cycling Memes Advent Calendar – Day Five

July 31, 2019. “Praise the TV director”

“A bicycle race around France not only linked the various provinces and towns symbolically; it also brought the technology of the industrial town back into the countryside, the new city workers in touch with their rural cousins, and, in addition, could be seen as a patriotic event with sacred connotations at a time when the unity of the French territory was a crucial political issue.” – Beating the Bounds: The Tour de France and National Identity; Christophe Campos

Related: Remembering David Duffield.