I need new glasses. No, that’s not correct, I’ve needed new glasses, or a glasses adjustment since I bought these glasses. They rub on my nose. However, because I’m a fool, or perhaps because I’m British (or both), I didn’t complain, didn’t go back to ask for my glasses to be corrected. I just put up with the pain, and donned a nose plaster of an evening when it was really irritating.

Fool.

However, that’s nothing compared with the pain Tony Martin is in right now. All things point to a broken collarbone, and, perhaps more painfully, his retirement from the tour. That does mean that Froome will retake the maillot jaune, but certainly not in the way he would have wanted to. It is also still a long way to Paris….

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