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Ryder Hesjedal motors up final climb
Ryder Hesjedal got in the break, stayed away and paced himself well up the steep final climb to take victory on stage 14. The odd thing is that this is his first win since 2012 when he won… the Giro d’Italia. It’s easy to forget that Hesjedal has a Grand Tour to his name. He’s…
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Awareness of Daniel Navarro becomes slightly less dim
If I had to categorise Daniel Navarro, I’d class him as being ‘a cyclist whose name I know’. If a Cofidis rider ever attacks on a climb, I reflexively think: “That’ll be Daniel Navarro,” because that’s invariably the line of commentary that follows. However, he wasn’t a rider I ever really thought about; just someone…
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John Degenkolb doesn’t have a knackered leg
Or maybe he does. After all, bust limbs seem to be performance enhancing if Alberto Contador’s form is anything to go by. Before the stage, Degenkolb was bandaged from a crash and saying he couldn’t produce much power. After the stage, he was standing on the podium getting kissed on the cheeks by raven-haired Spanish…
