"dannyfrankszzz"
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I was just wondering about this. How come there are no riders in the
Tour de France who are from a non-European ethnic background?

I thought that there were Japanese riders and some other Asian riders
who could make the cut.


This was posed in the T de F commentary and apart from our ex colonies (SA,
NZ, OZ, USA etc), there seem to be only Columbians and Venezuelans (with
Spanish names) and an Asian Kazakh (with a Russian name). Probably the same
reason why there is a lack of white heavyweight boxers.

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Simon M.