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2020 Tour de France, breakaway, Features, Opinion and analysis, Racing - September 4, 2020

Will the breakaway survive? Here are the factors that matter

An ever-present feature of a Tour de France stage is the breakaway: a small group of cyclists working incredibly hard to stay clear of the main peloton, attempting to reach the final kilometres of the stage with their advantage intact and a stage win in sight. And yet, breaks are caught more often than not, …

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Arbitrary lines and a yellow jersey stripped

In 2017, on a steep, roasting slope in the Pyrenees, Rigoberto Urán snatched a water bottle from someone in Cannondale-Drapac green on the side of the road. He was 5 kilometers from the finish line. George Bennett took one at 6.7 km. Romain Bardet took one too, as did a few others. It was hot, …

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The refreshing audacity of Guillaume Martin

Somebody had to do something to liven up the race. Just like the day before it, stage 4 of the 2020 Tour de France had been a largely tedious affair — a long, controlled day of Deceuninck-QuickStep leading the bunch around south east France before inevitably tugging on the rope that bound the sextet up …

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Advantage Jumbo-Visma: Early impressions of the Tour’s battle for yellow

Tuesday’s fourth stage of the 2020 Tour de France offered our first chance to see the yellow-jersey hopefuls do battle. The 160.5-kilometer stage from Sisteron may have been relatively uneventful for most of the day, and we did not get a full-on war of attacks and counterattacks in the closing kilometers, but the final climb …

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Julian Alaphilippe’s ride from grief to glory

Julian Alaphilippe sat in a gutter in Nice and sobbed, his head in his hands. He’d just crossed the finish line in first place, following an attack everyone anticipated but no one could prevent, and pointed at the sky to his father. In the moments after his win, before the podium presentation, Alaphilippe’s ecstasy gave …

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Will the breakaway survive? Here are the factors that matter

Arbitrary lines and a yellow jersey stripped

The refreshing audacity of Guillaume Martin

Advantage Jumbo-Visma: Early impressions of the Tour’s battle for yellow

Julian Alaphilippe’s ride from grief to glory

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