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Mon 07 Jul 2007Obscene Tour still shamming it upLocker Room: This column is a slave of the seasons when it comes to reading.Last week, knowing that the great obscenity that is the Tour de France was looming, we went to the bookshop there to see what literary works might deliver us from ignorance and provide padding for a column the core philosophy of which could be summed up in one short sentence: The Tour de France is about as genuine a sporting endeavour as pro wrestling.