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Factor Ostro VAM: The exclusive first-ride review
Factor, a manufacturer focussed on producing performance carbon bikes, calls it the road bike quiver-killer. A disc-equipped aero bike that can be built to the UCI weight limit but that’s comfortable enough to race at Paris-Roubaix. Or put another way, most road bikes are traditionally grouped into three segments. You have the lightweight climbing bike, …
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Fingers crossed as rest-day COVID testing begins at the Tour
In some ways it’s still surprising the Tour de France even got started. That as the number of coronavirus cases surged around France, sport’s biggest annual circus was allowed to set off from a COVID-19 hotspot and embark on a nationwide journey. And yet, the Tour did start, and nine stages have now been completed …
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Gallery: Heartbreak for Hirschi on stage 9 of the Tour de France
In his very first Grand Tour, 22-year-old Swiss rider Marc Hirschi (Sunweb) has been one of the stand-out performers at this year’s Tour de France. The former U23 world champion took a brilliant second place on stage 2, beaten only by Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep) in a three-up sprint. And then on Sunday’s stage 9 he …
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Adam Yates’ yellow was “fun while it lasted”
The Col de Marie Blanque was one climb too many for Adam Yates, who relinquished the maillot jaune to Primoz Roglic on Sunday, undone by the steep slopes of the Pyrenees. “I did everything I could,” Yates said. “I said from the very beginning, even before the Tour started, that I wasn’t at 100 percent, …
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Roglic grabs yellow as Pogacar wins stage 9: Daily Tour Digest
(Want the Daily News Digest delivered directly to your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Tadej Pogacar’s aggressive style paid off with a stage win into Laruns, as he outsprinted a small group of GC favorites and an incredible Marc Hirschi for the stage win. ?The Tour’s second and final Pyreneen stage saw major GC shakeups. Primoz …
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