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No Froome or Thomas at the Tour, podium changes: 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. Hopefully you haven’t been having too much fun speculating over the Ineos Tour de France selection because the team has decided to put an end to that speculation. Ineos announced its selection for the Tour on Wednesday–and neither …

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The Tour de France has put an end to podium girls

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Peter Sagan with podium girls At Tour of California

The Tour de France will do away with its traditional pair of podium hostesses, Tour director Christian Prudhomme announced at a press conference Wednesday. Instead, the Tour will have a male host on one side of the podium and a hostess the other side. “You used to see the champion surrounded by two hostesses, with …

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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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Simon Yates will ride on with Mitchelton as Adam’s status remains unclear

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Mitchelton-Scott has announced that Simon Yates will ride on with the squad through 2022, and at least for now, he is the only Yates brother confirmed to be staying with the team after this season. The winner of the 2018 Vuelta a España, Simon Yates has been with the team since turning pro there back in …

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Granite Design Stash RCX multi-tool review: Hidden in a carbon steerer

Hidden on-the-bike tools have quickly become commonplace within the mountain bike world. However such things have been a little slower to hit the dropbar world, partly because component failures and adjustments aren’t as common, and also because road jerseys have pockets, and saddlebags are just dandy. Today Granite Designs has announced its first dedicated product …

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