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    Dr Hutch

    Jul 09, 2020 4 minutes
    Photos Alamy, Getty Images, Andy Jones

    I’m worried that we’re going to run out of nostalgia. Through a race-less spring we got through it at a fearsome rate. TV channels showed old races. Magazines like this one upped their archive content. Eddy Merckx won more races in the first half of a season this year than he has since about 1976.

    The nostalgia business has been growing for some time. Cycling isn’t unique in this – most sports have an enthusiasm for harking back to a time when athletes allegedly had more character, races had more character, journalists… well, you get the

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