Samuel Abt, Reporter Who Covered Tour de France for Decades, Dies at 91
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/sports/cycling/samuel-abt-dead.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawLkOmxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE4UG5MMlYyR28wSkhUaWx6AR40xG_kyFcgNcqTOZBll5CvhoiZDTZRlP8vuXd006gPKVJmPZjulTb8FFSong_aem_rAaQiOKk_aoCVN6EKnwVCw An authority on cycling, he wrote about the elite race for The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, bringing wider attention to it. By Richard Sandomir July 13, 2025 Samuel Abt, an erudite writer who covered the Tour de France for The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune in stage-by-stage dispatches for more than 30 years, died on Friday in Suresnes, a suburb of Paris . He was 91. His son, John, confirmed the death, in a hospital, on the day of the seventh stage of this year’s Tour . Mr. Abt was an editor at The International Herald Tribune (now The International New York Times ), based in Paris, when he started covering the Tour in 1977 . At the outset, he is believed to have been the only North American writing regularly about i...