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British cyclists involved in secret ketone program for 2012 Olympics

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A home Olympics is a powerful motivator to be on top of your game, as Russia demonstrated at Sochi – for better and worse. Now, a Mail on Sunday investigation has revealed echoes of that boundary-pushing mentality in the Great Britain camp in the lead-up to the 2012 London Olympics. Through 2011 and 2012, in …

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Virtual Tour, real national championships: Daily News Digest

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(Want the Daily News Digest delivered directly to your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Hello CyclingTips readers, The return to the racing season continues to roll on in its haphazard fashion. The Virtual Tour de France, back for a second weekend, saw riders race on the virtual roads of France, with wins from some names you’ve probably …

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Last Tour, Today: The audacity of Julian Alaphilippe

It's been a year since one of the greatest Tours de France in any of our lifetimes. And so, in the absence of any Tour to talk about, we thought we'd reshare some of our favourite stories, a year on.

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Alberto Contador breaks Everesting record with time of 7:27:20

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Seven-time Grand Tour winner, Alberto Contador, has set a new Everesting record in a time of 7 hours, 27 minutes and 20 seconds. The record, set on Tuesday, July 7 on a steep, gently arcing segment of the climb of Silla del Rey in Castile and León, Spain, beats the mark recently set by Lachlan …

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This all-wheel-drive fat bike is built to cross continents

We cover a lot of bikes – road bikes, gravel bikes, the occasional mountain bike – but it’s fair to say we’ve never written about a bike quite like this. That’s because this bike, and the expeditions it is built for, are well outside the ordinary. Kate Leeming, a Melbourne-based adventurer who owns this Christini …

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