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What do you say to someone who just lost the Tour de France?
What do you say to someone who just lost the Tour de France? Do you pat him on the back, tell him there’s always next year? I think you probably sit in silence, next to his silence, in a soundless sort of mourning. There is a photo of Laurent Fignon sitting in the back of …
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Tadej Pogacar broke all the rules
There are rules in bike racing. Tadej Pogacar broke them. You aren’t supposed to win the Tour de France without a good team, with your highest-placed domestique over two hours back, with a bike that doesn’t know a wind tunnel from a wind-up toy. You aren’t supposed to win the Tour as a 21-year-old, in …
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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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Tour de France gallery: Double delight for Kragh Andersen on stage 19
Coming into the 2020 Tour de France it seemed like Sunweb had hamstrung itself by not selecting Michael Matthews. The Aussie sprinter was on great form and seemed to be a real chance of a stage win. We’ll never know how Matthews would have gone, of course, but it’s fair to say Sunweb has made …
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