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  • Stage 19: Edvald Boasson Hagen makes a gap

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    A lesson in the value of riding behind someone else today and the challenge of preventing others from doing so. Drafting means that it is tough to make a gap and gaps need to be created if you’re to leave your rivals behind. Depending on the speed a group is travelling, the rider at the…

  • A massively overdue report on the Tour of Britain

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    Report’s maybe not the word – although I did go and stand on Gun Hill for a bit, a hundred yards or so away from where Mark Cavendish rode into a parked car and in so doing finished his season. I must say, uphill and into a headwind, the Manxman did well to injure himself.…