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Tom Dumoulin wins something other than a popularity contest
Anyone who watched Tom Dumoulin’s six second advantage over second-placed Fabio Aru transformed into a 4m36s deficit on the final meaningful stage of last year’s Vuelta a Espana will surely have celebrated this win. Dumoulin was the heart of that race and emerged with little from it. On stage nine of this year’s Tour de…
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Chris Froome’s descent in the 2016 Tour de France (+ video)
I daresay he’ll do a few more, but in years to come, this will be the descent that people remember. “If I finished the day lying on my face among the tomato plants and shards of glass, so be it,” said Sean Kelly about his descent of the Poggio en route to winning the 1992…
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Steve Cummings’ wins are better than everyone else’s
They are. They just are. I don’t need to justify that statement. It’s just manifestly true. Steve Cummings’ Tour de France stage win last year when he soared past Thibaut Pinot and Romain Bardet as if they were standing still is Exhibit A, but he’s ploughed through plenty more of the alphabet since then. He…
