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2020 Tour de France, Features, Power analysis, Racing, Sepp Kuss - September 19, 2020

Power Analysis: Sepp Kuss, the Tour’s best domestique, on the Col de la Loze

Miguel Angel Lopez of Astana Pro Team powered his way to win the queen stage of the Tour de France on the brutal pitches of the Col de la Loze. But today’s power analysis looks at Jumbo-Visma’s super domestique, Sepp Kuss, and what it takes to be the right-hand man to Primož Roglic within the …

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2020 Giro Rosa, Features, Racing - September 19, 2020

Shifting Shoulders: The Race for the Maglia Rosa is wide open

, The penultimate day of the Giro Rosa had the spectre of a fraught stage seven still looming as the aftershock of Annemiek Van Vleuten’s departure following a crash rippled through the race. The Maglia Rosa hadn’t seen this much action since stage two in Civitella Paganico, passing from Elisa Longo Borghini to Annemiek van …

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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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Video: Inside Mitchelton-Scott’s horror day at the Giro Rosa

The day had started out so well for Mitchelton-Scott. There’d been a spirited rendition of “Happy Birthday” for Amanda Spratt in the team hotel, there were laughs and jokes a-plenty in Nola as the riders readied themselves for action, and there was the promise of another great day in pink as stage 7 of the …

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Tour de France gallery: Dusty gravel and deserving winners on stage 18

The 2020 Tour de France hasn’t exactly gone to plan for Ineos Grenadiers. The team’s leader Egan Bernal fell by the wayside at the end of the second week and by the start of stage 17 the defending champion was on his way home. But Ineos hasn’t given up — Richard Carapaz has been in …

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