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2020 Tour de France, Adam Yates, Egan Bernal, Features, Ineos, Julian Alaphilippe, Jumbo-Visma, Opinion and analysis, Primoz Roglic, Racing, Tadej Pogacar, Thibaut Pinot - September 2, 2020

Advantage Jumbo-Visma: Early impressions of the Tour’s battle for yellow

Tuesday’s fourth stage of the 2020 Tour de France offered our first chance to see the yellow-jersey hopefuls do battle. The 160.5-kilometer stage from Sisteron may have been relatively uneventful for most of the day, and we did not get a full-on war of attacks and counterattacks in the closing kilometers, but the final climb …

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Shoddy’s TDF recon: The Grand Colombier, a TDF battleground

I’m sat in front of my computer writing this story feeling like I’m in pieces, or in more pieces than I expected to be. Legs are sore, brain’s not firing at its usual capacity, and the upper body slumped. I’m in way, way worse condition than I should be, or to be precise hoped to …

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Brailsford explains why he left two Tour champions off the Tour roster

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Ineos team principal Dave Brailsford has given some context on the team’s Tour de France roster selection, detailing what went into the decision to leave both Geraint Thomas and Chris Froome out of the team and revealing that both Egan Bernal and Richard Carapaz will be targeting yellow this year. In a short video, Brailsford …

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Froome and Thomas left off Ineos Tour de France team

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Tour de France champions Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas have been left off the Ineos Grenadiers squad for the upcoming 2020 Tour. In a press release sent out Wednesday morning European time, Ineos announced that defending champion Egan Bernal will lead Ineos in the Tour’s 107th edition while Froome and Thomas will set their sights …

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Egan Bernal abandons Criterium du Dauphiné

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Egan Bernal will not take the start of the fourth stage of the Criterium du Dauphiné. Team Ineos didn’t elaborate on the reasons why the Tour de France winner of 2019 had to abandon but France TV quoted Geraint Thomas as saying his Colombian teammate had back pain. Bernal started his post-COVID season with a …

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Advantage Jumbo-Visma: Early impressions of the Tour’s battle for yellow

Shoddy’s TDF recon: The Grand Colombier, a TDF battleground

Brailsford explains why he left two Tour champions off the Tour roster

Froome and Thomas left off Ineos Tour de France team

Egan Bernal abandons Criterium du Dauphiné

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