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Who is João Almeida, and can he win the Giro d’Italia?

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Fifteen minutes after the winner of stage 16 of the Giro d’Italia had been decided, the main bunch came to the line. The young Portuguese rider, João Almeida (Deceuninck-QuickStep), attacked off the front of the peloton, snatching a two-second advantage and slightly extending his grasp on the race lead. A day later, Almeida finished safely …

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A silent Ronde: The sights and sounds of a crowd-free Tour of Flanders

It’s Monday morning and I am sat behind my computer figuring out how to write a piece about nothing. The idea was to share the emptiness of the Tour of Flanders; a Tour of Flanders without crowds. But it was far from empty, at least on television. Did you miss the people on the Paterberg …

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Charting the Giro d’Italia: How the first ‘week’ unfolded

VeloClub member Cameron Harris is back again with his Grand Tour charts. These data visualisations help us to see bike races in interesting and engaging ways, and his charts from the 2020 Giro d’Italia are no different. As you scroll on down you’ll see a bunch of interactive charts that will help tell the story …

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Ineos is putting on a hell of a show – let’s enjoy it while we can

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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Wait, so who’s the Giro d’Italia favourite now?

We’re just three days into the Giro d’Italia and already the GC battle is in sharp focus. Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) was looking like the clear favourite after a great stage 1 time trial but a couple days later the race has been blown wide open. On stage 3, Thomas was just one of a …

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