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Tom Davidson

Tweets of the week: Julian Alaphilippe swings by Greggs at the Tour of Britain

Julian Alaphilippe waving to crowds.

“WTF is a Greggs." This was a tweet I read this week from a cycling fan, who clearly didn’t live in the UK, and it made me chuckle to myself. 

It’s a fair question, actually. To help out, others leapt to answer it. “Only the best place in the world,” one person wrote. “It’s actually elite,” another said. The most succinct definition I saw was as such: “It’s a national chain of bakeries in the UK, but in truth, it’s so much more.” 

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