Too bad Tour de France is so far away

One of these days I’m finally going to get to watch the conclusion of the Tour de France again.

For the past several years I’ve missed the end of cycling’s preeminent event due to some reason or other. Usually it’s because I have been on mission trips to Guatemala and not been able to access the Internet because of the remoteness of the locations to which I have traveled.

This year, I was on vacation in Yosemite and too busy to watch the last five days of the Tour, missing a rally by Team INEO’s Egan Bernall to become the first Columbian rider to win the tour. The 22-year-old, who moved past F...