PARIS: When the 2014 Tour de France started in Britain with a British reigning champion riding for a British team, in some quarters there was the feeling that a piece of French heritage was being dragged across the channel.
To make things even worse, the British manager of the champion Team Sky, Dave Brailsford, had almost condescendingly said that his next challenge might be to try to win the Tour with a Frenchman.
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