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Marcel Kittel, Mark Cavendish, Racing, Tour de France 2019 - July 15, 2019

'You miss the big sprinters' : How absence of Cavendish & Kittel has changed the Tour de France sprints

Mark Cavendish and Marcel Kittel at the Abu Dhabi Tour 2017 (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto)

Riders give their views on how Tour de France sprints change without two of the race's best ever sprinters

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Doping, Racing, Tour de France 2019 - July 15, 2019

Anti-doping labs on alert as powdered Aicar reported in Tour de France peloton

The peloton on stage nine of the Tour de France 2019 (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)

Aicar is a fat-burning agent that can now be delivered in powder form, dissolved in water, cola or an energy drink

Geraint Thomas used Planche des Belles Filles performance to 'put everyone in their place'

Luke Rowe, Owain Doull and Geraint Thomas on stage four of the Tour de Suisse 2019 (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)

The defending Tour champion used the biggest climb of the first week to respond to journalists who had been questioning his form

Alessandro De Marchi suffers collapsed lung and multiple fractures after bad fall in Tour de France 2019

Alessandro De Marchi suffered multiple fractures in the fall on stage nine of the Tour de France 2019 (Picture: Eurosport)

Alessandro De Marchi suffered serious injuries including a collapsed lung in a crash that left him face down at the side of the road on stage nine of the Tour de France.

'We don't want to keep racing this way': Romain Bardet finishes tough first week in hometown at Tour de France 2019

Stage nine of the Tour finished in Romain Bardet's hometown, Brioude (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

Romain Bardet (Ag2r La Mondiale) ended Tour de France stage nine in Brioude with applause from his family and hope for the weeks to come.