Tour des Stories
Each year, the Tour de France, with its 21 days of racing, generates so many stories. I can imagine a cycling-focused Scheherazade-like journalist telling more than 1,001 tales for just one edition of the Grand Tour. By my calculations, if you wrote about every rider on the start list for each day of racing, that’s 3,696 stories. (That is also assuming no one leaves the race, which would only happen in a work of fiction.) You could also cover sport directors, soigneurs, mechanics and spend an eternity on one edition. Canadian Cycling Magazine is a smaller operation than the Tour, but some of this issue’s pages encompass that big event as writer Rob Sturney—who will also cover the event on our site during July—captured some of the main narratives we’re…