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2019 Tour de France, Michael Matthews, News - July 18, 2019

Matthews says he will no longer contest the Tour’s green jersey

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Sunweb’s Michael Matthews will no longer fight for points in the green jersey battle at the Tour de France. As the 28-year-old Australian explained after stage 11, his team has decided to give up on the points classification to instead focus on scoring stage victories with both Matthews and teammates like Cees Bol, who was …

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Centimetres apart, years in the making: Caleb Ewan’s first Tour win

TOULOUSE, France (CT) – For a victory so tight, there was a sense of inevitability about Caleb Ewan’s first Tour de France win. In a career to this point defined by promise, consistency, and sometimes thwarted ambition, a throw past Dylan Groenewegen in Toulouse closed a chapter of Ewan’s career, and opened another. The question …

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Richie Porte: “I hit my head pretty hard”

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TOULOUSE, France (CT) — Richie Porte will be checked for a concussion, his team confirmed Wednesday, following a high-speed crash some 30 kilometers from the finish of Wednesday’s stage that also took out the majority of his Trek-Segafredo team. “I hit my head pretty hard, so I guess we’ll see how that is,” Porte told …

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Caleb Ewan wins stage 11 of the Tour de France: Daily News Digest

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Welcome to your Daily News Digest. Here’s what’s happening today: Caleb Ewan wins stage 11 of the Tour de France, Drapac will cease operations at the end of 2019, Nippo-Vini set to fold. Those stories and more in today’s Daily News Digest. Story of the Day: Ewan tops Groenewegen to win stage 11 of the …

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Visualising the 2019 Tour de France: The ups and downs of the first ‘week’

Throughout this year’s Tour de France CyclingTips VeloClub member Cameron Harris has been putting his data journalism skills to work to help us make sense of the race. He’s created a bunch of charts that illustrate various aspects of the Tour in a way that a results sheet simply can’t. Through Cameron’s work, we get …

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Matthews says he will no longer contest the Tour’s green jersey

Centimetres apart, years in the making: Caleb Ewan’s first Tour win

Richie Porte: “I hit my head pretty hard”

Caleb Ewan wins stage 11 of the Tour de France: Daily News Digest

Visualising the 2019 Tour de France: The ups and downs of the first ‘week’

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