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Guest Story
Tour de France
8/28/2026
The Tour de France had been on his list for twelve years. Not a casual interest — a specific, dated entry in a notebook he kept for things he intended to do before circumstances made them impossible.
The paddock at a Tour de France stage start operates on a schedule that most spectators never see. Ninety minutes before the official departure, the area behind the sign-on podium is already active.
Stuart O'Grady won Paris–Roubaix in 2007. The details of that day — the decisive move, the solo finish, the track surface under his wheels — are his to tell, and he tells them differently depending on where you are when you ask.