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This weekend will be a fitting finale to three thrilling Grand Tours

What a way to close out the year. A season of thrilling Grand Tours is coming down the home stretch in much the same way things have proceeded throughout the past few months. Just as they were with two stages to go at the Tour de France and at the Giro d’Italia, things are incredibly …
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Lorena Wiebes wins stage 1 of the Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta

Lorena Wiebes missed out on a victory salute when she won Driedaagse Brugge-De Panne in late October, but in the fast and windy first stage of the Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta, she proved to be the best of the sprinters. Wiebes out kicked Valcar-Travel & Service’s Elisa Balsamo and Ceratizit-WNT’s Lisa Brennauer, respectively, to …
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Generic burgers passed by pro cycling

On Sunday, the strangest cycling season in history will skid to a ragged stop on the streets of Madrid. The riders will scatter to reflect on a year that began as any other, paused indefinitely in the middle, and eventually resumed with All of the Racing, All at Once. 2020 has been … quite a …
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On Ian Stannard retirement day, let’s relive the time he walloped Quickstep by himself

Ian Stannard is retiring, calling an end to a long and successful career that included a Paris-Roubaix podium, a national championship, roughly 7 million kilometers spent at the front of the Tour de France peloton for a string of Tour-winning teammates, and, most importantly, one of the greatest shellackings of a Belgium’s favorite team in …
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Preview: What you need to know about the Ceratizit Madrid Challenge

Originally a one-day race, the Madrid Challenge has grown into a three-day event over the last five years. Held at the end of the Vuelta a España, the Madrid Challenge is kind of the “La Course” version of La Vuelta, albeit one that doesn’t move around from year to year. Since it was first created …
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