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2020 Giro d'Italia, 2020 Tour de France, Features, Filippo Ganna, Geraint Thomas, Michal Kwiatkowski, Opinion and analysis, Racing, Richard Carapaz -

Grand Tours haven’t gone this badly for Team Ineos/Sky since 2014. Every year since then, the team’s won at least one three-week race. In 2017 and 2018, it won two. So far in 2020, Ineos has had both of its GC campaigns fall to pieces. The team will be ruing its misfortune, and rightly so, …

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Crashes are accepted as an unavoidable hazard of bike racing, and Geraint Thomas is the sport’s latest victim, withdrawing from the Giro d’Italia after a violent crash during stage 3 that left him with a fractured pelvis and shattered dreams after entering as a pre-race favorite. Unlike many crashes in bike racing, however, this one …

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Geraint Thomas won’t take the start in stage four of the Giro d’Italia, Gazzetta dello Sport reports. The Welshman started the race as one of the favourites for the overall win but crashed in the neutral zone of stage three, forcing him to lose over 12 minutes on the demanding finish on Mount Etna. Video …

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