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    Romain Bardet: A Cyclist Who Never Gave Up
    Road cycling

    After stage 20 of last year’s Tour de France, the last competitive Tour stage of Romain Bardet’s 14-year career, the then 33-year-old Frenchman told Eurosport, “It’s 13 years of my life, it’s over. It’s so tough. It’s the story of my career, to turn myself…

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    XDS Astana Getting Closer to Retaining WorldTour Status
    Road cycling

    The spring Classics season is over, so this is a great time to check on the progress (or regression) of the teams in the fight to keep or gain WorldTour status and receive automatic invitations to all of the big races, such as the Classics…

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    Pogačar Takes Giro Lead – But It Wasn’t Easy
    Road cycling

    A funny thing happened to Tadej Pogačar on his first step on the road to a crushing victory in the Giro d’Italia: he lost. The overwhelming favourite to win the first Grand Tour of the year was upset in stage 1 by a cyclist most,…

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    Pogačar Looks to Have Giro d’Italia at his Mercy
    Road cycling

    With the dominance of Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) in this year’s spring Classics and the clear superiority of the UAE Team Emirates leader Tadej Pogačar in the upcoming Giro d’Italia, grumblings are being heard in the sport about the lack of suspense in road…

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    What We Should Expect Of This Year’s La Vuelta
    Road cycling

    The 78th Edition of the Vuelta Espana, the third and final Grand Tour of the year after the Giro D’Italia and the Le Tour de France, gets underway on Saturday 26th of August in Barcelona and will conclude three weeks later in Madrid after 3,153.8km,…

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    Pogačar Wins La Flèche Wallone with Powerful Final Sprint
    Road cycling

    It would have been a huge upset if anyone but Tadej Pogačar had won Wednesday’s La Flèche Wallone, after his dominant performance in Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race. The 192.4-kilometre route ends with two short, steep climbs, of the type he used to launch his victorious…

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    The Surprises Packages of the Tour de France 2022
    Road cycling

    As we tick ever closer to the Grand Depart in Copenhagen, article upon article will be finalised on the riders set to take Le Tour by storm. But, like any event, some riders will stand up and break out to make a name for themselves…

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    Who Looks Good in the Giro d’Italia
    Road cycling

    The Giro d’Italia is starting on May 6 from the Hungarian capital Budapest two years late because of the Covid pandemic. But what explains the race having only 26.3 km of time trialling, the lowest amount since the early 1960s, but a whopping 51 km…

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