Cycling, Bread and Circuses? When Le Tour Came to Yorkshire and What It Left Behind
HC.0.06 , Heart of the Campus, Collegiate Crescent, Sheffield Hallam University, SheffieldProfessor Karl Spracklen, Leeds Beckett University In the summer of 2014, there was no way of getting away from it: Le Tour de France, the most famous and prestigious professional men’s cycling events, was coming to Yorkshire (UK), and Skipton, where I live, was in the middle of it. The message from people in tourism…