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Cycling Weekly - July 20, 2019

Luke Durbridge Tour de France column: Daryl's stage nine win merits a beer

Daryl Impey after winning stage nine of the Tour de France 2019 (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)

'We came down to dinner and there must have been five or six blown-up pictures of Adam around the restaurant. It was bit like a shrine'

Daring to dream: How Jumbo Visma built their Tour challenge

From one of the least successful teams in the race, to winning for fun. Jumbo Visma have turned their team around in the last two years, and done it off the back of the humble time trial. James Shrubsall found out how.

Jumbo-Visma on the podium after winning the team time trial on stage two of the Tour de France 2019 (Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images)

The yellow team became the team in yellow. When Mike Teunissen gurned and wrestled his way to the first victory of this year’s Tour de France, there can’t be many who failed to notice the happy synchronicity between Jumbo-Visma’s in-house colour scheme and the Tour’s maillot jaune. How fortuitous that everything from the riders’ helmets […]

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Cycling Weekly, General News, News - July 18, 2019

John Lee, 90, claims fourth hour record

John Lee, 90, has set a new hour record at Welwyn track, his 18.057 miles officially a greater distance than any man his age has ever recorded on an outdoor track. Lee, who is the president of the Icknield Road Club and has been racing since 1952, has ridden himself into the record books and […]

Allez Julian! The rise of a French hero

With his neatly trimmed goatee and dashing brilliance on the bike, Julian Alaphilippe is France's new musketeer, stealing hearts and putting his rivals to the sword, writes Pete Cossin

Julian Alaphilippe on stage four of the 2019 Tour de France (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

French former riders Sylvain Chavanel and Thomas Voeckler’s long-time team manager Jean-René Bernaudeau once said that if he could marry the natural talent of the former with the ferocious determination and tactical nous of the latter, he would have a world-beater. In essence, he would have created Julian Alaphilippe, cycling’s number one rider, who cemented […]

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