THE SPORTIVE REVIVAL
Somewhere, possibly in a lost shipping container, possibly in a corner of a factory in the Far East, sit boxes of finishers’ medals for the 2020 Etape du Dales. They are forgotten relics of a sportive season that never was, their purpose unfulfilled. Trinkets of goals never achieved, and smiles never cracked.
“We all got caught out,” says Etape du Dales organiser Nigel Bishop, recalling the effect the pandemic had not just on his 2020 event but the summer months, when cyclists of all types take to their
