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2019 Tour de France, Julian Alaphilippe, News -

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Julian Alaphilippe (Decueuninck-Quick-Step) remains in the yellow jersey heading into the second rest day at the Tour de France, but the Frenchman saw his lead shrink on Sunday’s challenging stage 15. Most of the big GC contenders for this year’s race picked up time on Alaphilippe on the final climb of Prat d’Albis, with Thibaut …

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Welcome to your Daily News Digest. Here’s what’s happening today: Simon Yates solos to the Tour de France stage 15 win from the break, Julian Alaphilippe loses time on the final climb, Italy shines in the Olympic test event. Those stories and more in today’s Daily News Digest. Story of the Day: Simon Yates wins …

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2019 Tour de France, Alejandro Valverde, Mikel Landa, Nairo Quintana, News -

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Nairo Quintana’s yellow jersey dreams faded on the slopes of the Tourmalet on Saturday. The two-time overall runner-up was dropped from the GC group well before the summit finish of stage 14 of the Tour de France, unable to stay with a hard tempo set by his own Movistar team. “Nairo was not at his …

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2019 Tour de France, Daily News Digest, Features, News, wout van aert -

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Welcome to your Daily News Digest. Here’s what’s happening today: Thibaut Pinot wins stage 14 of the Tour de France as Julian Alaphilippe stuns with a runner-up ride to solidify his GC lead, Geraint Thomas among big names losing time, van Aert faces a two-month recovery after his stage 13 crash. Those stories and more …

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2019 Tour de France, Egan Bernal, Geraint Thomas, Julian Alaphilippe, News -

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Geraint Thomas (Ineos) was as impressed as anyone else with the Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) performed on Friday’s stage 13 time trial at the Tour de France. The defending Tour champ headed into the stage as a hot favorite to take the victory and pick up time in the GC battle, but it was Alaphilippe who …

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