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Kittel v Cavendish – head-to-head record
Almost as if he wanted me to expand on my half-baked ramble from earlier in the week, Marcel Kittel again beat Mark Cavendish in a sprint finish at the Tour of Dubai. The win also means he won the race as a whole, which tells you pretty much all you need to know about how…
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Why the Tour of Dubai isn’t perhaps the most exciting race of the season
It’s pretty obvious. I mean look at it. Marcel Kittel won stage one, putting an end to a long run of not winning races and an almost equally long run of not finishing races. He beat Mark Cavendish into second place, giving us an early slice of an insanely easy-to-bake narrative pie. As an added…
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John Degenkolb’s finger and what it means for the spring classics
Nine of John Degenkolb’s fingers are fine. The tenth one pretty much came off and has only just been stuck back on. According to the man of science who wielded the glue, it’ll be three months before its owner is back racing. That means Degenkolb will miss the whole spring classics campaign. Being as he…
