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No Day at the Beach
From National Geographic, photograph by Michael Spooneybarger, AP:
Jean Warren looks at oil darkening the shores of Pensacola Beach on Wednesday.
Heavier oil is expected to wash ashore farther east on the Florida coast in coming days, according to the Associated Press.
Kevin Reed weeps as he looks over the oil-coated shores of Pensacola Beach, Florida, on Wednesday.
“This will never be the same,” he told the Associated Press.
The popular beach became an attraction for another reason on Wednesday as many came out to see the oil, the news agency reported.
Tourmalet Exhibition
Via Rapha Blog, by Joe Hall:
Rapha Cycle Club LDN is currently running an exhibition celebrating the centenary of the Col du Tourmalet.
On 21st July 1910, Stage 10 of the Tour travelled over the Col du Tourmalet for the first time. It was Alphonse Steinès, wingman to Tour founder Henri Desgrange, who first suggested the race send riders over the Giant of the Pyrenees. As well as bikes from circa 1910 the exhibition contains the notebooks of Alphonse Steinès.
In early 1910, Steinès had undertaken a reconnaissance of the mountain. Having stopped his car four kilometres from the summit, he continued on foot. Rumour has it he retuned to Barèges on the western side of the Tourmalet with hypothermia, having escaped the clutches of a bear, to send a telegram from the gendarme station to Desgrange in Paris, which read:
PASSE TOURMALET. STOP. TRES BONNE ROUTE. STOP. PARFAITEMENT PASSABLE. STOP. SIGNE: Steinès.
This “Perfectly Acceptable” mountain would then go on to feature more times than any other climb in the history of the Grand Boucle.
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