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2020 Fleche Wallonne, Anna van der Breggen, Features, Race reports, Racing - September 30, 2020

Anna van der Breggen wins Flèche Wallonne for the sixth year in a row

For the sixth year in a row, Anna van der Breggen of Boels-Dolmans won on the Mur de Huy. The newly crowned World Champion was the first in the final “sprint” of a wet edition of Flèche Wallonne. Behind her, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig of FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope took second place, after fighting back from …

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2020 Tour de France, Features, Race reports, Racing - September 20, 2020

Tadej Pogacar stuns Roglic on La Planche, takes yellow a day ahead of Paris

Tadej Pogacar is in the yellow jersey. The young Slovenian rode out of his mind up La Planche des Belles Filles and took 1’56” out of the yellow jersey of Primoz Roglic, enough to pull the yellow off his compatriot’s shoulders by 59 seconds. Pogacar won the stage by 1’21” over Tom Dumoulin. Richie Porte, …

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Anna Van der Breggen wins the Giro Rosa, Évita Muzic takes final stage

In a chaotic and wild final day of the Giro Rosa 21-year-old Évita Muzic of FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope was victorious out of a large breakaway, followed by the New Zealand national champion Niamh Fisher-Black (Equipe Paule Ka) in second and Team Sunweb’s Juliette Labous in third. Anna van der Breggen safely crossed the line …

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Giro Rosa Stage 8: Longo Borghini takes stage, Van der Breggen into pink

For the first time in her nine-year career, Italian Elisa Longo Borghini took a stage win at the Giro Rosa. At the top of the climb to San Marco La Catala, the Trek-Segafredo rider added a stage of her home tour to her extensive palmares. With Longo Borghini to the finish was Boels-Dolmans rider Anna …

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Kopecky wins stage seven of the Giro Rosa, van Vleuten crashes hard

Lotte Kopecky has consistently landed herself in the top ten of this year’s Giro Rosa. Sixth on stage three, second on stage five, third on stage six, and finally, on stage seven the Lotto Soudal Ladies team rider took her first victory of the race. Second on the day was Lizzie Diegnan of Trek-Segafredo and …

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