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Why the 2024 Vuelta a Espana might have to pick its own favourites
Who will win the 2024 Vuelta a Espana? Pffsh. Who knows? Unlike the first two Grand Tours of the season, there’s little predictable about the upcoming trip round Spain. Last year the team that was then Jumbo-Visma, and is now Visma-Lease a Bike, arrived at the Vuelta armed with the guy who had just won…
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Tadej Pogacar’s (modern) blockbuster win + The People’s Champion | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2024 Tour de France
There was plenty of action in the final week of the 2024 Tour de France – but action alone doesn’t hit too hard when there is so little sense of jeopardy. As such, Tadej Pogacar’s dominant victory was a lot more impressive than it was entertaining. Foreshadowing a damp squib The final week began with…
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Well done Pogacar, Vingegaard bloody | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2024 Tour de France
There’s still a week to go in the Overcooked Tadej Pogacar v Undercooked Jonas Vingegaard experiment. The sport’s meat thermometers are really struggling to see how the Dane could overhaul what still appears to be a growing deficit though. Overcooked? Or underfed? Stage 10 probably goes down as the most boring Tour de France stage…