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2019 Tour de France, Arkea-Samsic, Nairo Quintana, News -

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Bogota, July 25, 2019 (AFP) – Colombian Nairo Quintana, who won stage 18 of the Tour de France on Thursday, will ride for French team Arkea-Samsic next year, his father said. The 29-year-old two-time Grand Tour winner — the most decorated cyclist in Colombia’s history — has spent the last seven years with Spaniards Movistar. …

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2019 Tour de France, Egan Bernal, Features, News -

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It was mostly a war of attrition in the GC group on Thursday’s stage 18 of the Tour de France until Ineos’s Egan Bernal made things interesting on the Col du Galibier. The 22-year-old Colombian put in a big attack on the Alpine climb and ultimately pulled away, putting yellow jersey Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) and …

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2019 Tour de France, Direct Mount, Features, Shimano, Tech, Tech features -

Shimano began drastically changing the designs of its mountain bike rear derailleurs in 2007, moving the entire mechanism toward the rear of the bike in an effort to improve shifting performance and chain wrap on wider-range cassettes. That design quickly filtered out to Shimano’s entire mountain bike range, and eventually even out to the road …

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2019 Tour de France, Daily News Digest, Features, Nairo Quintana, News -

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Welcome to your Daily News Digest. Here’s what’s happening today: Nairo Quintana attacks out of the breakaway on the Galibier and holds on to win stage 18 of the Tour de France, Egan Bernal surges into second overall but Julian Alaphilippe remains in yellow, Tony Martin and Luke Rowe out of the Tour despite joint …

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