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2020 Tour de France, data visualisations, Features, Opinion and analysis, Racing -

There are many ways to show how a bike race is unfolding. Video coverage, of course, written reports, podcasts, photo galleries — they all do the job in their own way. And so does data journalism, as VeloClub member Cameron Harris showed us during several big races last year. Well, Cam is back at it …

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2020 Tour de France, Features, Opinion and analysis, Racing -

Tony Martin asked for respect. He stuck his hands out and spread the front of the peloton wide across the road. As they climbed the Côte de Rimiez, he conversed with others around him, riders of the same vintage, and made the truce. Piano, piano, his lips read on the TV cameras. Slowly, slowly. It …

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Features, La Course, Previews, Racing -

The 2020 season has been full of successful breakaways, and the sprinters of the peloton have not yet had an opportunity to show off their form. That could change on Saturday at La Course by the Tour de France. When La Course started in 2014 it was solely a one day race, held on the …

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2020 Tour de France, Features, Photo galleries, Racing -

The 2020 Tour de France is almost upon us, but the usually sunny optimism of this longed-for race is tempered by the storm clouds gathering on the horizon. The race will start in a region that is on red alert for COVID-19, as a worrying resurgence of the virus is gripping large parts of France. …

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