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Born and bred at altitude, Bernal lifts Colombian cycling to new heights

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Zipaquirá, Colombia, July 29, 2019 (AFP) – Egan Bernal grew up at altitude and won the Tour de France on the highest slopes, but he learned to ride in the foggy forests around his home town. Bernal was born in Bogota and grew up 42 kilometres north in Zipaquira, a mining and agricultural town, which …

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Tour runner-up Thomas: To finish second behind a teammate makes it okay

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2018 Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas (Ineos) said he had “mixed emotions” about his second-place finish at the 2019 Tour. The 33-year-old Welshman was honest about his feelings after coming up short in defending his title, but he was also a gracious runner-up to race winner and Ineos teammate Egan Bernal. “I am slightly …

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Ewan sprints to stage 21 victory, Bernal wins the Tour: Daily News Digest

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Welcome to your Daily News Digest. Here’s what’s happening today: Caleb Ewan wins the final stage of the Tour de France, Egan Bernal takes the overall title, Mathieu van der Poel and Jolanda Neff take European cross-country mountain bike championships. Those stories and more in today’s Daily News Digest. Story of the Day: Ewan sprints …

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Brailsford: There’s more than one way to win the Tour de France

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Paris, July 29, 2019 (AFP) – Egan Bernal’s victory on Sunday marked a seventh Tour de France success in eight editions for the team once called Sky and now known as Ineos, highlighting the outfit’s clinical command of cycling’s biggest event. Led by Briton Dave Brailsford their only failure to claim the yellow jersey on …

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The first man to run a sub-4-minute mile and finish the Tour de France

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VAL THORENS, France (CT) – When Michael Woods rolls across the finish line on the Champs-Élysées tomorrow he will be the first human in history to have run a sub-4 minute mile and finished the Tour de France. He’s pretty sure of that stat, anyway. “It’s one of the reasons I wanted to come to …

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Born and bred at altitude, Bernal lifts Colombian cycling to new heights

Tour runner-up Thomas: To finish second behind a teammate makes it okay

Ewan sprints to stage 21 victory, Bernal wins the Tour: Daily News Digest

Brailsford: There’s more than one way to win the Tour de France

The first man to run a sub-4-minute mile and finish the Tour de France

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