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2019 Tour de France, Features, News, Thibaut Pinot -

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Frenchman Thibaut Pinot abandoned the Tour de France Friday just 40km into Stage 19 due to an unspecified issue with his left leg. The winner of Stage 14 atop the Tourmalet, Pinot was sitting fifth overall, 1:50 behind compatriot Julian Alaphilippe, at the start of Stage 19 from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to Tignes. After the group of GC …

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2019 Tour de France, Arkea-Samsic, Nairo Quintana, News -

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Bogota, July 25, 2019 (AFP) – Colombian Nairo Quintana, who won stage 18 of the Tour de France on Thursday, will ride for French team Arkea-Samsic next year, his father said. The 29-year-old two-time Grand Tour winner — the most decorated cyclist in Colombia’s history — has spent the last seven years with Spaniards Movistar. …

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2019 Tour de France, Egan Bernal, Features, News -

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It was mostly a war of attrition in the GC group on Thursday’s stage 18 of the Tour de France until Ineos’s Egan Bernal made things interesting on the Col du Galibier. The 22-year-old Colombian put in a big attack on the Alpine climb and ultimately pulled away, putting yellow jersey Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) and …

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2019 Tour de France, Daily News Digest, Features, Nairo Quintana, News -

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Welcome to your Daily News Digest. Here’s what’s happening today: Nairo Quintana attacks out of the breakaway on the Galibier and holds on to win stage 18 of the Tour de France, Egan Bernal surges into second overall but Julian Alaphilippe remains in yellow, Tony Martin and Luke Rowe out of the Tour despite joint …

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2019 Tour de France, Features, Interviews, News, Racing, Xandro Meurisse -

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There’s a yawning gap between the riders who think they can win the Tour de France and the riders who know they can’t. It contains the middle men, the new and the young and the hopeful and, at the moment, it contains Xandro Meurisse. Meurisse is 27, in his first Tour de France. Two weeks …

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