A Paris-Nice edition of the Explainer

March 11th, 2010 admin

Dear Readers, This week marks the return of both Paris-Nice and of our daily up-to-the-minute Live Coverage of racing. It’s one of my favorite parts of the job, due largely to the fact that I get to hear directly from readers throughout each day’s stage. Readers can simply type in comments, observations and questions and those appear right on the control panel, next to where Andrew Hood and I type in the latest news from the road. Paris-Nice takes riders from the chilly suburbs of Paris to the (hopefully) warm, sandy beaches of Nice…


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