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Come watch vintage Amstel Gold with us

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Welcome back to week five of Classic Classics. This week’s race is Amstel Gold Race, and we’ll gather to watch it on Sunday, 19 April at 8 am Pacific time (that’s 11 am Eastern, 4pm CET). The concept, as always, is a simple one: open this page just before the start time, click play at …

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Thomas on Zwift, EF makes cuts, Brailsford talks Tour: 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. As another week comes to a close, Zwift remains in the headlines and so too do some noble efforts by people around the sport. Geraint Thomas combined both over the past few days, riding 12 hours a day on …

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Thomas’s ‘Zwift Shifts’ raise over £300,000 in charity donations

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Geraint Thomas finished the third of three (very) long days on the trainer on Friday, closing out a fundraising effort that would raise a whopping £300,000 to help the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS). The 2018 Tour de France champion kicked off his three NHS “Zwift Shifts” on Wednesday, spending 12 hours a day …

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The benefactor model: Why some teams are ‘more stable’ than others right now

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With no revenue coming in from race starts and few opportunities to provide value for cash-strapped sponsors, bike racing teams are in dire straits amid the coronavirus pandemic. Behind the scenes, many of the people that run those teams are facing difficult choices as budgets near collapse. Several teams have already made dramatic cuts. Some …

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CyclingTips Podcast: The Tour de France in September

This week’s episode opens with the news of a Tour de France start on August 29, ending in September. What would this mean for cycling? For pro teams? For other races? We discuss.  In this week’s Nerd Alert, James explains the positives and negatives of various types of hydraulic brake fluid. Then we have a …

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