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Rafal Majka wins your average mountain stage
This is the way a mountain stage is supposed to go. A bunch of decent riders who are miles behind on the general classification head off up the road. The best climber among them attacks and wins. The favourites roll in a bit later with no major kerfuffle. Just as it was twice last year,…
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Chris Froome is the fastest climber – how’s his endurance?
And how’s his ability to stay on the bike? Because those are surely the only things that can prevent him from winning this year’s Tour de France. Never mind stopping for a pee, Froome could take a crap (even a challenging, low fibre crap) and still conceivably retain the yellow jersey. If he falls, or…
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Vincenzo Nibali loses a little more time ahead of The Big Mountain Sort-Out
The team time trial was an intriguing prospect, but it didn’t amount to an awful lot in the end. BMC won it and it increasingly seems like their leader – the American, Tejay Van Garderen – has become the fifth member of the big four. My maths is less-than-excellent, but there are only two ways…
