26 July 2025, 15:05

By William Mata

It’s 2040: Oasis, needing money once more, have completed a summer series of gigs; Taylor Swift has just finished The Eras Tour: Tokyo Drift; and a 99-year-old Bob Dylan has said his most recent shows were probably his last, but then again, maybe not.

Fans widely enjoyed the concerts, but were a bit put out they were staged inside the Lee Valley Velodrome. The minimal capacity, they said, created an intimate atmosphere, but wooden banking did make for some strange acoustics.

But Live Nation defended its venue choice. What choice did it have when all of the football stadiums are being used every single weekend?

This weekend’s Tour de France finale can be completed without the use of a stadium and the race will finish, for the 50th time, on the Champs-Élysées.

Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard........

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