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2019 Tour de France, Podcast, Podcasts, Rupert Guinness - July 8, 2019

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Join us after each stage of the 2019 Tour de France to make sense of what just happened, reactions from the riders and personalities of the race, and shenanigans over a glass of rosé with Caley Fretz and Rupert Guinness who have covered 40 Tours de Frances between them. We’ll also be covering the Giro …

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‘Lesson learnt’: Vos wins again at the Giro Rosa as Kennedy celebrates early

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The heartbreak is clear on Lucy Kennedy’s face. As her front wheel crosses the finish-line tape, her mouth hangs agape in something akin to surprise mixed with horror. A metre ahead of her, and about the same distance to her left, is Marianne Vos, the greatest of all time, doing what Vos does: win big …

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Bernal tipped for greatness by five-time Tour winner Hinault

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Egan Bernal will top the Tour de France podium in Paris and is young enough to surpass any of the race’s legends, French great Bernard Hinault told AFP on Sunday. The straight talking 64-year-old’s fierce competitive personality earned him the knick-name ‘the badger’, but he was in a relaxed and friendly mood on Sunday on …

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Porte playing catch-up early after disappointing Tour TTT

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Two days into the 2019 Tour de France, and Richie Porte already has ground to make up. The 34-year-old Australian and his Trek-Segafredo squad finished a disappointing 18th – 1:18 behind winners Jumbo-Visma – in the stage 2 team time trial. More pressingly, they ceded just under a minute to Ineos and the dual threat …

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Photo gallery: The fastest (and slowest) 2019 Tour de France time trial tech

Sunday’s team trial wasn’t very technical, and mostly flat, which meant that everything was geared toward all-out speed — quite literally, in fact. The average speed of the winning team was a whopping 57.2 kilometers per hour. Whereas 56T and 58T outer chainrings are often the norm, 60T ones weren’t entirely uncommon today, plus heaps …

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Join us for our Daily Tour de France Podcast

‘Lesson learnt’: Vos wins again at the Giro Rosa as Kennedy celebrates early

Bernal tipped for greatness by five-time Tour winner Hinault

Porte playing catch-up early after disappointing Tour TTT

Photo gallery: The fastest (and slowest) 2019 Tour de France time trial tech

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