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How can Michael Matthews beat Peter Sagan for the green jersey?

We’re only six stages into the Tour de France and it already looks like Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) will win a record-breaking seventh green jersey. Sagan’s consistency — four top-five finishes since the start in Brussels, including his win on stage 5 — gives him an early 46-point lead in the battle for green. If that …

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Photo gallery: The Tour’s GC battle roars to life on the first mountain stage

There was an air of excitement and anticipation ahead of the 2019 Tour’s first summit finish and stage 6 to La Planches des Belles Filles certainly delivered. On a day that finished with a brutally steep ramp — part of it unsealed — we had a group of plucky breakaway riders battling for stage honours …

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The audacity of Julian Alaphilippe

Julian Alaphilippe rose over the penultimate pitch of La Planche des Belles Filles, through a cloud of churned dust and headlights, alone in the frame. Inside the slim gap between his arrival and that of Geraint Thomas lived a moment where anything seemed possible. Even Julian Alaphilippe winning the Tour de France. Julian Alaphilippe will …

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2019 Tour de France, Dylan Teuns, Egan Bernal, Features, Geraint Thomas, Giulio Ciccone, Julian Alaphilippe, Mikel Landa, Nairo Quintana, Opinion and analysis, Racing, Richie Porte, Romain Bardet, Steven Kruijswijk, Thibaut Pinot, Vincenzo Nibali -

Today at the Tour: First mountaintop finish brings GC battle into focus

The steep finish atop la Planche des Belles Filles did not disappoint. After five days that delivered three sprint finishes, a solo breakaway, and a team time trial, the Tour de France ventured into the mountains Thursday, bringing the general classification picture into focus. The stage — which started in Mulhouse, tackled seven categorized climbs …

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Today at the Tour: Dream scenario for a pair of Tour debutants

Success at the Tour de France can forge careers, and that’s just what happened for the two best men from the day’s 14-rider breakaway on Stage 6, finishing atop la Planche des Belles Filles. On a day that was slotted as the Tour’s first true GC battle, it was a pair of Tour debutants riding …

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