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Is the Tour de France more dangerous these days?

  • Written by: The Conversation
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It has already been an eventful Tour de France this year. To stage seven there have been 12 rider abandons due mostly to crashes, and many other riders are nursing significant injuries. Some commentators are calling this year’s race the ‘Tour de Carnage’, and others are talking...

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