The Hardest Part About Cycling

Deepti Pradhan
6 min readJan 10, 2022

is the pavement — the pileup when you hit the ground. The hardest part about COVID is the misinformation, disinformation, and denials.

An unthinking fan causes a significant pileup in the first stage of the 2021 Tour de France

The 2,156- mile Tour de France is the most prestigious bicycle race in the world today. Fans love it because the cyclists are within reach as they course through the serpentine route. In 2020, the first year of this COVID pandemic, the race was delayed by two months as the…

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Deepti Pradhan

Employed at Yale University, Deepti is primarily a scientist & patient advocate. She runs Tilde Cafe, a forum to make science accessible (www.tildecafe.org)