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BIRDWOOD, Australia (CT) – Step 1: Amanda Spratt wins a stage and takes the overall lead. Step 2: Spratt holds that lead through to the end of the race. That’s how the past three editions of the Women’s Tour Down Under have gone. On today’s second stage of the 2020 edition, Spratt and her team …

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James, Neal, Caley, Dane, and Abby are all back in Vecchio’s for this week’s episode, the first of 2020 with the whole CyclingTips Podcast crew. The episode opens with a news roundup, discussing Bernie Eisel’s retirement, Lorena Wiebes’ contract controversy, and more. Then, Neal sits down with Tim Johnson to discuss the place of national governing …

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As the 2020 road season kicks off with the Tour Down Under, south-eastern Australia is shellshocked and smoke-choked by the bushfires that continue to rage across the country. A land area larger than Belgium has been lost to the fires, and some estimates have put the wildlife death toll at more than a billion animals …

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(Want to get the Daily News Digest delivered directly to your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Hello again, CyclingTips readers! It’s a big day for Grand Tour news, as the Giro d’Italia has announced its wildcard invitations and Ineos has unveiled the plans of its marquee GC stars in 2020. The highlights: The three Italian ProTeams …

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In a video released by Ineos on Thursday, team principal Dave Brailsford laid out the team’s 2020 plans for its four recent Grand Tour winners: Egan Bernal, Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas, and Richard Carapaz. “As it stands at this moment in time, what we’re looking at is Richard going to race the Giro trying to …

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