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Harsh realities of women’s cycling, part one: Money

Molly Weaver raced as a professional from 2015 to 2018 on several teams based in the UK and Europe. She was a trusty domestique who spent much of her career riding in the support of others. Weaver stepped away from the sport in mid 2018 after “a lifetime’s worth of misfortune” in one year — …

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Froome back in action, Ackermann wins at UAE 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! For a four-time Tour de France winner, simply completing a stage of a weeklong race in February wouldn’t normally be news—but Chris Froome’s 115th-place finish on the opening day of the UAE Tour was a big deal. The sprint stage …

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Froome: ‘It feels good to be a bike racer again’

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CT) — Eight months after the crash that cut his 2019 campaign short, Chris Froome made his long-awaited return to racing on stage 1 of the UAE Tour, which kicked off in Dubai on Sunday. And three and a half hours after rolling off the start line, the 34-year-old Briton was all …

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Jack Haig wins at Ruta del Sol as Fuglsang keeps overall lead

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Madrid, Feb 22, 2020 (AFP) – Defending champion Jakob Fuglsang retained the lead in the Tour of Andalucia/Ruta del Sol, though he was outsprinted by Jack Haig at the finish of the fourth stage on Saturday. The testing 125km stage from Villanueva de Mesia to Granada crested a category climb with 18 kilometres to go. …

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Operation Aderlass snags another: ex-pro Pirmin Lang confesses to blood doping

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Add Swiss ex-professional Pirmin Lang to the list of cyclists caught up in Operation Aderlass. Lang, a pro with IAM from 2013 to 2016 and more recently one of the co-founders of Continental team Swiss Racing Academy, confessed his involvement in the Aderlass doping ring to the Swiss newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung after are reporter …

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