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2020 Tour of Poland, Dylan Groenewegen, Fabio Jakobsen, Features, News - August 8, 2020

Groenewegen suspended by team, addresses crash in tearful interview

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Two days after he sparked a crash at the Tour of Poland that seriously injured Fabio Jakobsen and left several others hurt as well, Dylan Groenewegen has spoken at length about the incident for the first time. Groenewegen’s Jumbo-Visma team, meanwhile, has released a statement announcing that Groenewegen will be suspended from racing until the …

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Bikes of the Bunch: Saved by the bike, a former soldier’s custom Venge

For years, Rocco Orlando was the tip of the spear. I first spotted Rocco’s bikes hanging off the line of hooks in our local Rapha shop. They’re hard to miss. There was a BMC, custom painted with pink highlights, and a Specialized Shiv, immaculately clean. A Colnago C64 hung around for a bit. And then …

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Fabio Jakobsen successfully brought out of induced coma

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Fabio Jakobsen is no longer in a coma. The 23-year-old Dutchman had been in an induced coma since Wednesday, when he was seriously injured in a crash on stage 1 of the Tour of Poland. Two days later and after receiving extensive medical treatment that included a surgery lasting for several hours, Jakobsen was awake …

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Specialized Recon 2.0 gravel shoe review: S-Works on a budget? Not quite

Specialized says its Recon 2.0 XC/gravel shoe is “inspired by S-Works Recon”, which suggests a fair bit of that flagship model’s DNA is included here, despite costing a fraction of the price. It looks the part and sounds good on paper, but if you’re hoping for a similar fit to the S-Works Recon, just with …

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Features, Tech, Tech news, Zwift - August 7, 2020

You can now steer everywhere in Zwift — but it’ll cost you

Popular online cycling platform Zwift debuted steering functionality in limited capacity on a single mountain bike-oriented course back in September, but it’s now added steering capability to all roads and courses in the Zwift ecosystem. According to Zwift, the addition of steering will make the virtual experience much more immersive as there will now be …

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