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UAE officials announce six more coronavirus cases from UAE Tour

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Dubai (AFP) – The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday announced six more coronavirus cases linked to an abandoned cycling event, saying that two Russians, two Italians, one German and a Colombian had been infected. The UAE Tour was abandoned last Thursday after two Italian staff members with one of the teams tested positive for the …

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New third-generation Lapierre Aircode aero bike spotted in Belgium

The spring classics are often happy hunting grounds for scooping new bikes and equipment during the final testing phase before being released to the world, and in Belgium, for the first cobbled races of the spring, a prototype Lapierre aero bike was hiding in plain sight atop the Groupama-FDJ team car, draped in a conspicuous …

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Ineos director and former pro Nicolas Portal dies at home in Andorra

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Nicolas Portal, Ineos’ grand tour director sportif and a former professional racer, has died. Portal was at his home in Andorra when he died, apparently of a heart attack. He was 40 years old. Portal rode as a professional with AG2R from 2001 until 2010, ending his career with Team Sky. He then transitioned into …

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Multiple teams still “held against their will” in UAE hotels

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Three pro teams remain locked in their hotel in Abu Dhabi, “held against our will,” according to Cofidis president Thierry Vittu, given trainers to stay fit but disallowed from getting their bikes out of the basement to actually ride them. “We are treated as if we have the plague, our rooms haven’t been made up …

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Nerd Alert Podcast: What’s next for gravel bike geometry?

This week’s episode comes to you from our Gravel Bike Field Test, and, unsurprisingly, we’ve got gravel bikes on the mind. After a brief tech news roundup, James and Dave dig into gravel geometry, and specifically on the ways that gravel bikes are borrowing from mountain bikes. Sometimes that borrowing is a good thing, sometimes …

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