“Back in the day” I would follow the Tour by reading the tiny box stats in our newspaper the next day. That was it. Towards the end of the Tour there may be an actual article, but those were few and far between and really only if Greg Lemond was riding that year. The box stats were frustrating as you’d see a big change in the general classification or some nutso time difference in that day's stage and wonder, “what the heck happened?”
