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The endless cycle of champion and underdog begins anew - Escape Collective

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Please note that this is an automated translation and it will not be perfect. All articles have been written in English and if anything appears to not make sense, please double check in English. Comments Tadej Pogačar's rise, fall, and comeback is a narrative arc older than sports. One of the most consistent human behaviors is, when presented with a series of discrete events, to forge them together into a narrative. Evolution gave us a pattern-recognizing brain in order to better hunt for food and we have since used it to watch professional cycling. Fortunately for that pattern-recognizing brain, the Tour de France, with its 21 days of racing, allows for a staggering number of individual narratives at various temporal scales to be formed and clung to. Sometimes, such as with the emotional wins of Romain Bardet and Victor Campenaerts, these narratives are years – entire careers – in the making. Sometimes, as in the case of Matteo Jorgenson’s failed breakaway on Isola 2000, a man is

by Kate Wagner Jul 23, 2024 More from Kate Wagner + One of the most consistent human behaviors is, when presented with a series of discrete events, to forge them together into a narrative. Evolution gave us a pattern-recognizing brain in order to better hunt for food and we have since used it to watch professional cycling. Fortunately for that pattern-recognizing brain, the Tour de France, with its 21 days of racing, allows for a staggering number of individual narratives at various temporal scales to be formed and clung to. Sometimes, such as with the emotional wins of Romain Bardet and Victo

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