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2020 Tour de France, Features, Opinion and analysis, Racing - September 15, 2020

What do you think: Can Pogacar overhaul Roglic in the Tour’s final week?

As the final week of the 2020 Tour de France is about to get underway, we’ve been pondering some of the big questions that have emerged over the course of the race. There’s been quite a few such storylines during a Tour that has featured no shortage of compelling storylines. For the first time in …

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Mathieu van der Poel will miss Worlds as he focuses on Classics

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Mathieu van der Poel will not race the 2020 UCI Road World Championships. The 25-year-old Dutchman, who picked up his first WorldTour win of the season on Sunday’s stage 7 at Tirreno-Adriatico, will skip Worlds as he focuses on his other objectives for the rest of the season. “Together with the coaches, we decided that …

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Features, SRAM, Tech, Tech news - September 15, 2020

Updated 11-speed SRAM Red eTap rear derailleur adds Orbit pulley cage clutch

SRAM quietly updated its Red hydraulic disc-brake calipers several months ago, and it has now snuck another component redesign under the radar. This one comes on the drivetrain front, though, in the form of a new clutch-equipped version of its 11-speed SRAM Red eTap wireless electronic rear derailleur that began shipping August 1. Functionally, the …

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Power analysis: The 20 minutes that dropped Egan Bernal

On stage 15 of the Tour de France, we saw last year’s winner, Egan Bernal, fall from third on GC down to 13th overall, 8 minutes and 25 seconds behind Primoz Roglic. All of this occurred on the last climb of the day, the Grand Colombier, where Wout Van Aert’s pace up the switchbacks did …

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Yates wins Tirreno-Adriatico, Banks takes Giro Rosa stage: Daily News Digest

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(Want the Daily News Digest delivered directly to your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Hello again CyclingTips readers, It was a rest day at the Tour de France on Monday but that doesn’t mean it was a quiet day on the news front. Across the border in Italy two big races were playing out. There was …

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