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2019 Tour de France, Features, Julian Alaphilippe, Opinion and analysis, Racing - July 12, 2019

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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doping, News, Operacion Puerto - July 12, 2019

WADA almost done analyzing Puerto samples but athletes will not be named

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WADA’s Intelligence and Investigations department is nearly finished a process of analyzing DNA and blood to identify numerous athletes involved in the Operación Puerto scandal, but the implicated individuals will not be named publicly, insidethegames reports. A 2006 raid on the Madrid-based clinic run by doctor Eufemiano Fuentes obtained some 200 blood bags, believed to …

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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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Teuns soars to Tour stage 6 win from the break: Daily News Digest

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Welcome to your Daily News Digest. Here’s what’s happening today: Dylan Teuns wins stage 6 of the Tour de France from the breakaway, Giulio Ciccone takes over yellow, Patrick Bevin pulls out of the race, Marianne Vos nabs her third stage victory of the 2019 Giro Rosa. Those stories and more in today’s Daily News …

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