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Gallery: Lutsenko sets sail on stage 6 of the Tour de France

The second uphill finish of this year’s Tour de France offered the prospect of fireworks from the overall contenders. We didn’t really get that. What we did get was an impressive solo victory from Alexey Lutsenko (Astana). Most riders seemed content to let the breakaway have its day and the Kazakh champ was more than …

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Gallery: The day the break never went

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On stage 4 of the Tour de France, Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) was tearing it up in the high mountains, ripping the legs off his rivals to set up team leader Primoz Roglic. A day later he was Jumbo-Visma’s man for the bunch sprint — a sprint he won to make it two stage wins …

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Arbitrary lines and a yellow jersey stripped

In 2017, on a steep, roasting slope in the Pyrenees, Rigoberto Urán snatched a water bottle from someone in Cannondale-Drapac green on the side of the road. He was 5 kilometers from the finish line. George Bennett took one at 6.7 km. Romain Bardet took one too, as did a few others. It was hot, …

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The refreshing audacity of Guillaume Martin

Somebody had to do something to liven up the race. Just like the day before it, stage 4 of the 2020 Tour de France had been a largely tedious affair — a long, controlled day of Deceuninck-QuickStep leading the bunch around south east France before inevitably tugging on the rope that bound the sextet up …

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Gallery: Roglic imposes himself on stage 4 of the Tour de France

On stage 4 of the 2020 Tour de France we got our first look at the form of the GC contenders. As Dane Cash wrote earlier today, Jumbo-Visma put on an impressive display, while Ineos, the team of defending champion Egan Bernal (and the team that’s won seven Tours in eight years) looked decidedly less …

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