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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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Chris Froome eager to seize ‘second chance’ after injury comeback

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Paris, Feb 21, 2020 (AFP) – Chris Froome says “it will be a huge relief just to be back in the peloton” next week in the UAE Tour, eight months after he suffered devastating injuries in a high-speed crash. The four-time Tour de France winner fractured a thigh, elbow, and vertebrae in the career-threatening accident …

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Despite denials, Harrison Ford definitely rides an e-bike

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Here’s a sentence I didn’t expect to write today: this week, Harrison Ford appeared on US chat show Ellen, where he angrily denied riding an e-bike despite all evidence to the contrary. Ford, who is the star of hit films including Morning Glory and The Expendables 3 and lent his considerable vocal talents to the …

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