trip up

As a CEO in the old Silicon Valley mold—an engineer who intimately knows the technology she’s selling—Su is deftly navigating challenges that have tripped up other tech-industry leaders.

The goal now is to maintain that momentum, embrace the lessons this regular season provided, and avoid any further pitfalls that have tripped up so many previous defending champions before them.

It’s virtually certain that type of team will get tripped up along the way.

The first big day in the Pyrenees arrives on Thursday with a trip up to the ski resort at Hautacam.

But though the hits keep coming, book banners eventually get tripped up by the same problem: The people on whose behalf all this noise is ostensibly made.