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  • Nairo Quintana in the third week

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    After Chris Froome hurried his way to what appeared an impregnable lead after stage 10, I wrote that Grand Tours aren’t just about who’s fastest, they’re also about how tired you get and I pointed to how Nairo Quintana had been stronger than Froome by the end of the 2013 Tour. So it has proven…

  • Romain Bardet sneaks into the top ten

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    That’s if it’s possible to sneak while simultaneously winning a stage. Which it isn’t. Particularly when you’re French and there’s four shitloads of your countryfolk screaming into your face as you bear down on the line. It was another win for the break, which contained about 30 riders early on but was down to about…

  • Bearded win for Simon Geschke and goodbye to the most famous Tejay since Hooker

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    Simon Geschke’s a good strong support rider and I was slightly surprised to learn that this was only his third professional win. A man with a beard as lustrous as his surely deserves more success. As is so often the case by this point in the race, Geschke got in the day’s break, attacked on…

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