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2019 Tour de France, Features, George Bennett, Opinion and analysis, Racing -

George Bennett’s crash highlights cycling’s brutality

Cycling as a sport demands unnatural risks of its participants. On the descent of the Col de Vars, midway through the Tour de France’s punishing 18th stage, George Bennett showed just how.

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2020 Trek Domane goes all-in on all-road versatility: First-ride review

The new third-generation Trek Domane is a far cry from the endurance road bike it was when it first debuted in 2012. The Domane was once more of a toned-down road bike with ultra-stable handling, a very relaxed rider position, and semi-wide tires — this new one is a thoroughly refined all-road machine with gobs …

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2019 Tour de France, Features, Interviews, News, Racing, Xandro Meurisse -

The Tour de France middle man’s modest dreams

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There’s a yawning gap between the riders who think they can win the Tour de France and the riders who know they can’t. It contains the middle men, the new and the young and the hopeful and, at the moment, it contains Xandro Meurisse. Meurisse is 27, in his first Tour de France. Two weeks …

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2019 Tour de France, Features, Matteo Trentin, Mitchelton-Scott, Opinion and analysis, Racing, Toms Skujins -

Tour de Furnace: how to win in the heat

It was hot today at the Tour. Too hot. Salt blooming across clothing hot. Can’t touch the steering wheel hot. Hot. Yesterday was hot, too. That’s all anyone was talking about, and all that was on anybody’s mind. The conditions forced an immediate primal kind of response – a desperation to get away from it, …

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2020 Trek Domane goes all-in on all-road versatility: First-ride review

The new third-generation Trek Domane is quite a far cry from the endurance road bike it was when it first debuted in 2012. Whereas once the Domane was more of a toned-down road bike with ultra-stable handling, a very relaxed rider position, and semi-wide tires, this new one is a thoroughly refined all-road machine with …

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