TV coverage of a bike race can leave you with a strange impression of a country

I have a friend, let’s call him Ronald, who went on holiday to Sweden with his family this summer. 

“Why Sweden?” I asked. “Because I’ve never watched a Swedish bike race,” he said. “So I didn’t arrive with a warped, wrong view of the place.”

Multiple national champion on the bike and award-winning author Michael Hutchinson writes for CW every week