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Green jersey contenders in 2016
I’ve been putting off writing this points competition preview for a few days now and presumed there was some reason for this – nothing conscious, just some mystic message from the cosmos saying: “No, don’t bother yet. Play Civilization or go to the pub or something.” Turns out the cosmos was right. Everyone else is…
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Important stages of the 2016 Tour de France
All of them, obviously – but let’s just try and get a bit of a handle on the route in a bid to work out where the race could be won and lost. In summary Relatively flat start Surprise mountain stage inside the first week Pyrenees on the weekend that follows that first week Mont…
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Rounding up The Dolphin
Chris Froome won the Criterium du Dolphin. He won it on stage five. Team-mate Mikel Landa attacked on the final climb and Froome followed as his rivals chased the Spaniard down. The moment they caught him, whoosh, Froome was off. Richie Porte was the only one able to follow and the Tasmanian had nothing left…
