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Paris-Roubaix has been cancelled

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Paris-Roubaix has been cancelled. The 118th edition of the iconic race was due to have its first women’s version this season, and was scheduled for October 25. Due to the worsening COVID-19 situation in the region around Lille, close to the finish in Roubaix, the French regional and national authorities have requested the cancellation of …

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Ineos is putting on a hell of a show – let’s enjoy it while we can

Grand Tours haven’t gone this badly for Team Ineos/Sky since 2014. Every year since then, the team’s won at least one three-week race. In 2017 and 2018, it won two. So far in 2020, Ineos has had both of its GC campaigns fall to pieces. The team will be ruing its misfortune, and rightly so, …

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Grace Brown wins Brabantse Pijl

Days after stepping on to her first World Tour podium, Grace Brown has won the Belgian 1.1 one-day Brabantse Pijl. The Mitchelton Scott rider finished the race solo, winning by 47 seconds. The rest of the podium rode in alone as well, with Team Sunweb taking second and third with Liane Lippert and Floortje Mackaij …

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Riders injured as Giro helicopter blows barriers onto the road

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Two riders were injured in the final kilometre of stage 4 of the Giro d’Italia when roadside barriers were blown onto the course by a low-flying helicopter. The incident occurred in the moments after Arnaud Demare (Groupama-FDJ) won a narrow sprint into the seaside town of Villafranca Tirrena. Broadcast images caught sight of Luca Wackermann …

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Wait, so who’s the Giro d’Italia favourite now?

We’re just three days into the Giro d’Italia and already the GC battle is in sharp focus. Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) was looking like the clear favourite after a great stage 1 time trial but a couple days later the race has been blown wide open. On stage 3, Thomas was just one of a …

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