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Lizzie Armitstead emerges with a nice grey sheen
I’ve been covering Lizzie Armitstead’s racing triumphs semi-regularly over the last year, so it only seems fair that I also report on her legal triumphs. If you haven’t seen the news, Armitstead has not been banned. That might not seem like such a triumph, but there was actually a very real threat of it. The…
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Bauke Mollema gets some sort of consolation at Clasica de San Sebastian
That post-Tour de France review of mine never really happened, did it? My week of sloth means I sort of feel obliged to report on the latest WorldTour (no space) race, the Clasica de San Sebastian, which took place yesterday. A race being part of the WorldTour (no space) is not necessarily a guarantee of…
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Andre Greipel holds his bike in the air in celebration
Greipel wins! Take that, pedals! For a Tour de France that has at times felt surprisingly familiar, there was one last thing to tick off. Since 2008, Andre Greipel has won at least one stage in every Grand Tour he’s entered. He left it late this year. Indeed, it wasn’t until the very moment that…
