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2020 Tour de France, Features, Racing, Tadej Pogacar - September 20, 2020

Tadej Pogacar broke all the rules

There are rules in bike racing. Tadej Pogacar broke them. You aren’t supposed to win the Tour de France without a good team, with your highest-placed domestique over two hours back, with a bike that doesn’t know a wind tunnel from a wind-up toy. You aren’t supposed to win the Tour as a 21-year-old, in …

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Egan Bernal at his best is not quite good enough. Yet.

This is Egan Bernal near his best, he admitted Friday, shortly after losing 37 seconds to a pair of flying Slovenians through the Massif Central. And his best, right now, is not quite good enough. “I mean, I am looking at my numbers and I am doing one of my best numbers,” Bernal said, speaking …

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Gallery: Heartbreak for Hirschi on stage 9 of the Tour de France

In his very first Grand Tour, 22-year-old Swiss rider Marc Hirschi (Sunweb) has been one of the stand-out performers at this year’s Tour de France. The former U23 world champion took a brilliant second place on stage 2, beaten only by Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep) in a three-up sprint. And then on Sunday’s stage 9 he …

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TDF Power Analysis: Pogacar’s Peyresourde attacks and new climbing record

“Tomorrow we fight again! Tour is not finished, vamos” – Tadej Pogacar Tadej Pogacar was one of the several riders to lose to time on stage 7’s brutal crosswinds, which ripped the field apart. After losing 1’25” on the General Classification as well as the Young Rider’s jersey due to an untimely puncture on a …

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Advantage Jumbo-Visma: Early impressions of the Tour’s battle for yellow

Tuesday’s fourth stage of the 2020 Tour de France offered our first chance to see the yellow-jersey hopefuls do battle. The 160.5-kilometer stage from Sisteron may have been relatively uneventful for most of the day, and we did not get a full-on war of attacks and counterattacks in the closing kilometers, but the final climb …

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Tadej Pogacar broke all the rules

Egan Bernal at his best is not quite good enough. Yet.

Gallery: Heartbreak for Hirschi on stage 9 of the Tour de France

TDF Power Analysis: Pogacar’s Peyresourde attacks and new climbing record

Advantage Jumbo-Visma: Early impressions of the Tour’s battle for yellow

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