By Lewis Blackwell

When the Tour de France started in Yorkshire in the summer, the region came of age. For all the famous pride of its natives, only by having the world’s biggest spectator event take place across there did it finally arrive in international media terms.

Unlike boasting of being the birthplace of the Brontë sisters or David Hockney, or falling into low-level factionalism around a cricket team or quality of beer, La Grande Boucle conferred a rare honour, one which Yorkshire had been granted only by outsmarting the likes of Edinburgh, capital of a near-nation.

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Source: The Drum