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Late but alive, Tour de France races into COVID epidemic

by AP Sports Writers
| August 29, 2020 10:03 AM

NICE, France (AP) — Delayed but alive again and out on French roads, the strangest Tour de France ever set off Saturday in a bubble of anti-COVID protocols to try to keep the 176 riders virus-free for three weeks of racing through the country's worsening epidemic.

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