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La Course gallery: Three world champions and a thrilling sprint

This year, for the first time in the race’s seven-year history, La Course was held before the men’s Tour de France rather than during or after it. It meant that while the men’s peloton dealt with treacherous conditions on stage 1, the women’s peloton had far more favourable conditions as it weaved its way around …

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Gallery: A sketchy slip and slide on stage 1 at the Tour

After months of anticipation, on a rainy day on the French Riviera, the Tour de France finally began. It was a more eventful day’s racing than most in the race would have wished for. Newly surfaced roads were turned slick by the rain, and riders were sent clattering across the tarmac – domestiques and leaders, …

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Philippe Gilbert and John Degenkolb out of Tour de France

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Team Lotto Soudal announced today that the diagnosis of the the stage 1 crash Philippe Gilbert was involved in revealed a broken patella of the left knee. The 38 year old Belgian will be unable to take the start in stage 2 of the Tour de France. Gilbert said in a press release, “I was …

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Charting the 2020 Tour de France

There are many ways to show how a bike race is unfolding. Video coverage, of course, written reports, podcasts, photo galleries — they all do the job in their own way. And so does data journalism, as VeloClub member Cameron Harris showed us during several big races last year. Well, Cam is back at it …

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Tony Martin’s truce turned the peloton into its own patron

Tony Martin asked for respect. He stuck his hands out and spread the front of the peloton wide across the road. As they climbed the Côte de Rimiez, he conversed with others around him, riders of the same vintage, and made the truce. Piano, piano, his lips read on the TV cameras. Slowly, slowly. It …

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