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Gallery: New bikes at the 2020 Tour de France

From Factor's yet-to-be-released aero bike to Canyon's Ultimate CFR, we look at a handful of new bikes already spotted at the 2020 Tour de France.

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Julian Alaphilippe’s ride from grief to glory

Julian Alaphilippe sat in a gutter in Nice and sobbed, his head in his hands. He’d just crossed the finish line in first place, following an attack everyone anticipated but no one could prevent, and pointed at the sky to his father. In the moments after his win, before the podium presentation, Alaphilippe’s ecstasy gave …

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Gallery: Alaphilippe’s emotional masterpiece on stage 2 of the Tour

There wasn’t anything too surprising about the way stage 2 of the Tour de France finished up. Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep) attacked where we thought he would, he got away as we thought he would, and then from a group of three he won the sprint he was expected to. And yet, as predictable as it …

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Tubed clinchers just won their first Tour de France road stage

Julian Alaphilippe’s late attack and early yellow jersey may bring a bit of déjà vu, but something else about his win was entirely new. Alaphilippe crossed the line on a set of clincher tires, the first road stage victory for clinchers with tubes in the Tour’s century-long history. The vast majority (all but a small …

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Features, Michael Matthews, News - August 31, 2020

Sunweb will release Michael Matthews from his contract at the end of 2020

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Michael Matthews is set to leave Sunweb one year earlier than expected. The team announced on Sunday that Matthews, who is contracted through 2021, had asked to be able to “look for new opportunities after 2020 elsewhere,” and that Sunweb “decided to cooperate on the move.” Matthews has been with the Sunweb organization since coming …

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