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Gallery: The weekend in cyclocross
We miss beer tents. Blasting terrible European electro-techno-horrorshow music. Frothy screaming at your rider of choice as they slog past. Cyclocross feels different this year. No fans, no tents, just an hour of suffering through mud in relative silence. Weird. It’s still such a photogenic sport, though, isn’t it? Less about vistas and backgrounds and …
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Ulissi taking ‘temporary break from competitive activity’ due to myocarditis
Diego Ulissi will take “a temporary break from competitive activity to carry out cardiac checks related to the development of myocarditis,” UAE-Team Emirates announced on Monday. As UAE doctor Michele De Grandi points out in a team press release, “Myocarditis is an inflammation of the myocardial tissue, the heart muscle, usually of viral origin.” While …
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Riccardo Riccò receives a lifetime ban
Riccardo Riccò has been handed a lifetime doping ban by the Italian national anti-doping organization. The ban is the latest in a series of penalties levied by anti-doping authorities against the 37-year-old Italian, who has not raced professionally since 2011. After turning heads with a promising start to his career that saw him take a …
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Ten products I loved in 2020: Shoddy Dave
“I’m sorry! Come again?” I think, as I scratch my chin and continue reading the email James Huang had sent out. “It’s the end of the year already, and we need to put together our top ten picks?” I look out the window. It’s cold, the clouds are looking heavy with what could be snow, …
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Why Van Vleuten went to Movistar, Pidcock vs Van der Poel: Daily News Digest
(Want the Daily News Digest delivered directly to your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Hello again, CyclingTips readers, When choosing a new team, it’s unusual for a top professional rider to consider us, the fans, as well as the health of their sport. And yet that seems to be what Annemiek van Vleuten has done with …
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