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2020 Tour de France, Features, Photo galleries, Racing - September 4, 2020

Gallery: Lutsenko sets sail on stage 6 of the Tour de France

The second uphill finish of this year’s Tour de France offered the prospect of fireworks from the overall contenders. We didn’t really get that. What we did get was an impressive solo victory from Alexey Lutsenko (Astana). Most riders seemed content to let the breakaway have its day and the Kazakh champ was more than …

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2020 Tour de France tech: Inside EF’s tubeless tire foam party

At no other time in modern road racing history has there been such a multi-pronged assault on the once-untouchable tubular tire. However, with every team perpetually in the search for free watts — and a growing body of evidence that ultra-fast-rolling tubeless and even tube-type clinchers now offer exactly that — there’s a distinct absence …

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Lutsenko wins stage 6 from the break: Daily Tour Digest

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(Want the Daily News Digest delivered directly to your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Alexey Lutsenko climbed to victory out of the breakaway on stage 6 of the Tour de France. The Kazakh national road champ dispatched the rest of his breakaway companions on the Col de la Lusette and then pressed on solo, cresting that …

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Gallery: The day the break never went

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On stage 4 of the Tour de France, Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) was tearing it up in the high mountains, ripping the legs off his rivals to set up team leader Primoz Roglic. A day later he was Jumbo-Visma’s man for the bunch sprint — a sprint he won to make it two stage wins …

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Specialized and Roval have stopped investing in tubulars: Here’s why

In the endless juggling act of balancing weight, rolling resistance and aerodynamics, wheel and tyre choices can play a real role in the outcome of a race. And it’s exactly this technical advantage that keeps the fire burning in the debate about tubeless, clincher and tubular tyres. Few brands have added more fuel to that …

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Gallery: Lutsenko sets sail on stage 6 of the Tour de France

2020 Tour de France tech: Inside EF’s tubeless tire foam party

Lutsenko wins stage 6 from the break: Daily Tour Digest

Gallery: The day the break never went

Specialized and Roval have stopped investing in tubulars: Here’s why

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