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Peter Sagan taken out by a motorbike
Peter Sagan had 7km to go. He’d got over the two climbs and there weren’t any particularly strong sprinters left in the front group. He should have been confident of finishing one place higher than usual. But then a support motorbike cleaned him out. Sagan was displeased by this. Standing around in the road immediately…
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Only minor skirmishes but Chris Froome still got dropped
For those of you wondering how a man can win the Tour de France and then get dropped in the Vuelta a Espana, it’s due to a phenomenon known as ‘being tired’. The final climb of stage seven, long though it was, wasn’t ferocious. Nor was it raced with any real gusto by the favourites.…
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Esteban Chaves has even more to smile about
Today’s stage could have appropriated the title format of one of those sensationalist ITV filler programmes and called itself When Race Leaders Attack. It was one of the Vuelta’s typical short, erratic climbs to the finish. When it was steep, little Esteban Chaves attacked. When it flattened out, big Tom Dumoulin followed him. It was…
