The smoking ban may have been primarily about avoiding the queasy optics of a ponytailed TV rigman ripping a cigarette on a day with restricted access, though it's a decent metaphor for the impossible future facing the Tour de France. This year's race is taking place under furnace-like conditions that can't fairly be characterized as extreme any longer. The French countryside is not getting any less combustible. The sun is not abating. There's nothing the Tour can do but manage the effects. The show must go on; the show can't go on. How will the Tour de France adapt to a world on fire? Is that even possible?

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Atsuko Tanaka, Electric Dress at The Second Gutai Exhibition,The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, 1956 

Jun Kumaori (Junkuma)

"chasing its tail too much"