Tour de France: Cautious optimism but 50 riders are left sitting in limbo (Independent)
When the Tour de France starts next weekend, it will not just look for a winner, it will also be looking for some kind of credibility as a sporting event. And it will be looking hard. For some, as usual, it is all the media's fault that this sorry state of affairs has come about. Ken Livingstone has stated that if the British public read the newspapers about the Tour's 48 hours in England, they ...
