James Jung is the Editorial Director for Blackbird, a restaurant loyalty platform. He has written for Bloomberg Businessweek, Bicycling, Men’s Journal, SKI, Travel + Leisure, Vice and other publications. He’s a lifelong skier and cyclist, and has followed the Tour de France since 1992. His fiction has appeared in Narrative Magazine and The Southern Review. James lives in New York City.
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The Eritrean cyclist was the first Black rider to win a stage at the Tour de France. He hopes he opened the door for more African riders to follow.
Writer James Jung expresses his affection for the Tour’s 80-year-old TV analyst, who sometimes mixes up names, dates, and statistics during the telecast
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