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2019 Tour de France, Features, Racing, Stig Broeckx -

Feel-good story of the Tour: Stig is back and Stig is beautiful

At the 2016 Tour of Belgium, Stig Broeckx was involved in a crash with two race motorcycles and nearly lost his life. The then-26-year-old Belgian was taken to hospital with serious head injuries, including a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain, and was in a coma for months. At the time doctors feared he …

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2019 Tour de France, Features, Opinion and analysis, Racing, Rohan Dennis -

Inside the bizarre Tour departure of Rohan Dennis

Rohan Dennis, casual in a red Bahrain-Merida t-shirt, walked off his bus and straight toward a finish line he never crossed, flanked by his agent, Andrew McQuaid, and his press officer. Behind him, reporters and cameras trailed like the tail of a comet. His Tour de France was over, and he wouldn’t say why. Two …

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2011 Vuelta a Espana, Bauke Mollema, Chris Froome, Features, Juan Jose Cobo, Racing, Wout Poels -

Sliding doors: The legacy of Cobo’s delayed relegation

Toulouse, France (CT) – For most in the peloton, this morning’s stage start was much like any other. But for a couple of riders, there was a small but significant change. News quietly landed overnight that Juan Jose Cobo had been stripped of his 2011 Vuelta a Espana win – an outcome that left two …

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2019 Tour de France, Caleb Ewan, Features, Photo galleries, Racing -

The ecstasy of a dream fulfilled: Caleb Ewan’s first Tour stage win in photos

As CyclingTips’ Iain Treloar wrote from Toulouse on Wednesday, there was a feeling of inevitability about Caleb Ewan’s maiden Tour de France stage win. He’d gone third, third, second and third in the four previous bunch sprints at this year’s race, and his second place was agonisingly close — mere centimetres separated his front tyre …

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Centimetres apart, years in the making: Caleb Ewan’s first Tour win

TOULOUSE, France (CT) – For a victory so tight, there was a sense of inevitability about Caleb Ewan’s first Tour de France win. In a career to this point defined by promise, consistency, and sometimes thwarted ambition, a throw past Dylan Groenewegen in Toulouse closed a chapter of Ewan’s career, and opened another. The question …

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