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The corner that ended Wout van Aert’s Tour de France

Pau, France (CT) – Four days after his debut Tour stage win, in a technical conclusion to a tricky time trial, it all went wrong for Wout van Aert. On this right-hander just before the flamme rouge, you hear the riders coming before you see them. There’s the blare of the lead motorbike, and then, …

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Inside the bizarre Tour departure of Rohan Dennis

Rohan Dennis, casual in a red Bahrain-Merida t-shirt, walked off his bus and straight toward a finish line he never crossed, flanked by his agent, Andrew McQuaid, and his press officer. Behind him, reporters and cameras trailed like the tail of a comet. His Tour de France was over, and he wouldn’t say why. Two …

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Centimetres apart, years in the making: Caleb Ewan’s first Tour win

TOULOUSE, France (CT) – For a victory so tight, there was a sense of inevitability about Caleb Ewan’s first Tour de France win. In a career to this point defined by promise, consistency, and sometimes thwarted ambition, a throw past Dylan Groenewegen in Toulouse closed a chapter of Ewan’s career, and opened another. The question …

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Visualising the 2019 Tour de France: The ups and downs of the first ‘week’

Throughout this year’s Tour de France CyclingTips VeloClub member Cameron Harris has been putting his data journalism skills to work to help us make sense of the race. He’s created a bunch of charts that illustrate various aspects of the Tour in a way that a results sheet simply can’t. Through Cameron’s work, we get …

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Five predictions for ‘week two’ of the Tour de France

With 10 stages in the rearview mirror at what has already been a compelling Tour de France, the action should heat up even more as the race rolls on this week. The Tour is bound for the Pyrenees over the next few days, and that will mean fireworks out on the road during ‘week two’ …

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