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Simon Yates will give the Giro another go in 2020

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Simon Yates has his sights set on the Giro d’Italia and the Olympics for 2020, his Mitchelton-Scott team announced Monday. “Last year I just felt I never really got to the level that I expect of myself, I want to go back in the best shape possible and try again,” Yates said of returning to …

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Two German riders linked to blood-doping ring

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Operation Aderlass looks set to net a further two riders, with reports that two German WorldTour riders are being investigated over their involvement in a blood-doping ring. The investigations, which began with raids at the World Ski Championships in February of this year, have snowballed through 2019 to reveal a blood-doping network operating across multiple …

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Bikepacking New Zealand’s South Island: 10 days, 1,200km and plenty of gravel

In late 2019 Minas Aroney and his mate Karl got off a ferry at the top end of New Zealand’s South Island and started riding. Over the next 10 days they’d cover roughly 1,200 km with around 16,000 metres of climbing. It was an adventure designed to put Minas’ gravel bike through its paces and …

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Dennis talks Tour departure and team change

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Rohan Dennis shed some light on his stunning departure from this year’s Tour de France and talked about his change of teams on the Watts Occurring podcast of Ineos’s Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe. The reigning world time trial champion, who was let go by Bahrain-Merida in September, is now teammates with Thomas and Rowe …

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Finally, a Tour de France roster to rival Ineos

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A team to rival Ineos at the Tour de France. I like the sound of that. There was Movistar and it’s lamentable, somewhat floppy trident. And various daring French efforts, agonizingly close and deeply unlikely. When was the last time a Tour de France started with any real question about which team would dominate? You …

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