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Cycling as a sport demands unnatural risks of its participants. On the descent of the Col de Vars, midway through the Tour de France’s punishing 18th stage, George Bennett showed just how.

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It was hot today at the Tour. Too hot. Salt blooming across clothing hot. Can’t touch the steering wheel hot. Hot. Yesterday was hot, too. That’s all anyone was talking about, and all that was on anybody’s mind. The conditions forced an immediate primal kind of response – a desperation to get away from it, …

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We’re well into the third week of the Tour de France and still we have no idea who’s going to win the race — we’ve got a few more mountain stages before that will become clear. Throughout this year’s race VeloClub member Cameron Harris has been turning Tour de France results data into interesting charts …

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NIMES, France (CT): Backing up his stage 11 victory, Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) again showed his formidable pace and tactical smarts to overcome both the heat and a hectic finish in Nimes on Tuesday. On a mostly flat parcours in stifling conditions, stage 16 was predestined for a sprint finish. Despite the bravest efforts of a …

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We’re headed into the final week at the 2019 Tour de France, and it’s shaping up to be a thriller. That’s saying something, considering how great the race has been already. This has been the most intriguing Tour in recent memory because it has been so unpredictable, but that’s not going to stop me from …

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