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2019 Tour de France, Features, Jack Haig, Racing, Rider diaries -

Jack Haig’s Tour de France Diary: Eating routines and rest days

Ten days in and I’m starting to get tired. This first block before the first rest day has been quite tough. We haven’t had many crazy-hard days, but every day has been quite long. The one day that stands out is stage 8 — that day scared me a little. As a climber I was …

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Photo gallery: Breakaway brilliance in the heart of France

At the Tour de France, transfer stages between mountain ranges aren’t always terribly exciting. You often get long, flat stages designed for the sprinters, with little in the way of drama when it comes to the GC battle or the breakaways. But at this year’s Tour de France, stages 7 through 10 delivered plenty of …

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Ill-fated echelons: How EF-Education First missed the move it started

EF Education First started the fight, they just didn’t finish it. On a day that could easily have been a mellow transition into the first rest day, Mother Nature had other ideas. A series of crosswind-induced splits saw EF’s leader Rigoberto Uran lose 1:40 to the Ineos duo of Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal, as …

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2019 Tour de France, Features, mountain bike, News -

The Annual Tour de France Road Gap is here!

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For the past few years at the Tour de France when the race hits the mountains there’s a crazy mountain biker who takes the spotlight. And for good reason. Check this out from the 2019 Tour de France.

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2019 Tour de France, Features, Jakob Fuglsang, Mikel Landa, News, Richie Porte, Rigoberto Urán, Thibaut Pinot -

Porte, Fuglsang, and Pinot among stars caught out in Tour’s windy 10th stage

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Several big GC names were caught out in a wind-blown stage 10 at the Tour de France. Forced to chase after a split in the bunch, Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo), Jakob Fuglsang (Astana), Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), and Rigoberto Urán (EF Education First) all finished 1:40 down on the day, while Mikel Landa (Movistar) crossed the line …

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