There was a time when I paid attention to the Tour de France. But the great Greg LeMond has long ago retired, and after Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles because of the doping scandal, I lost interest in it. Now,it seems, we had stumbled onto front row seats to the most famous bicycle race in the world. How could we pass it up? We bought a baguette and a cold Coke, spread our little plastic tarp out in a shady spot, and waited for the racers…