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Adam Hansen on his move to Ironman: ‘I just can’t wait for this new chapter’

Adam Hansen has a little over two weeks of racing in the pro peloton before he moves on. The 39-year old Australian will switch to Ironman triathlons after the Giro d’Italia. His first will be on November 7 in Lisbon, Portugal, less than two weeks after the Giro finishes in Milan. “I can’t wait,” Hansen …

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Primoz Roglic wins Liège-Bastogne-Liège as Alaphilippe celebrates too early

Primoz Roglic put the heartbreak of the Tour de France behind him with a stunning victory over Julian Alaphilippe at the Liège-Bastogne-Liège, his first monument victory. It was a bad day for Alaphilippe, who had the win settled but put his hands up well before the line and was pipped by a sliver of a …

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Diego Ulissi wins second stage of the Giro d’Italia

Diego Ulissi (UAE-Team Emirates) took advantage of a short uphill finish tailor-made for punchy riders to win the Giro d’Italia’s second stage, attacking shortly after the red kite and holding off Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Mikkel Honoré (Deceuninck-QuickStep). Michael Matthew (Sunweb) led the peloton across the line just five seconds back. Sprinters tried to take …

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Lizzie Deignan wins Liege-Bastogne-Liege Femmes

For the first time in her career, Lizzie Deignan has won in Liege. The Trek-Segafredo rider won solo out of a breakaway that went on the Côte de la Vecqueé with 50km to go. Similar to Annemiek van Vleuten in 2019, Deignan made her winning move from said break on the Côte de la Redoute. …

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Take a bow: Mathieu van der Poel’s 50 km solo attack seals BinckBank Tour win

There are days, like last year at Amstel Gold and again Saturday in Flanders, when Mathieu van der Poel takes what we think we know about bike racing, crumples it up into a little ball, and throws it out the window. With a 17-second deficit into the final stage of the BinckBank Tour, van der …

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