I am so happy to eat my words about Mikel Landa and his Bahrain-McLaren team strategy
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It was on that Col du Loz that Richard Carapaz showed just why he is a Grand Tour winner.
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His is a modern position, small frame, forward saddle with the long, low stem pushing narrow handlebars out over the front of the bicycle.
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Alaphilippe was all over the breakaway on Thursday’s Stage 12 into Sarran, attacking left and right, riding the front like a maniac.
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I don’t know what goes on in the EF1 team car, probably I’m missing something, but they don’t seem to know quite what to do with their talented Native American.
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If a Swiss wants to do something good in life, the country will provide plenty of support and structure for success as shown by Marc Hirschi’s path to the top.
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Caleb Ewan is an acrobatic sprinter who always waits for the very last possible moment to come out of the slipstream of the riders ahead, “off the wheels” as we say in cycling, slipping through holes that no one else can, treating the riders in front as flags in a slalom ski race.
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Bennett’s career has been plagued by insecurity, by a shaky belief in his own abilities. He’s also endured strings of bad luck, from being hit by a car while amateur, to his two failed attempts at the Tour de France.
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Roglič didn’t win any great races as an amateur, learning the sport inch by painful inch. By 2013 the Radenska club was ready to bring him into their elite squad, but Primoz Roglič had other ideas.
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Former World U-23 Road Champion Marc Hirschi electrified the Tour on Stage 9
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The race up the Peyresourd was like an uphill version of a Belgian Classic, all the strongmen just trying to kill one another
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All it took was a small, Category-3 climb right at the beginning of the stage for the Hulk to set things right.
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The teams with podium designs need to marshal their forces, keep their powder dry for that last week when the true fatigue sets in, and can ill afford using those soldiers up in any action that doesn’t directly benefit their ultimate goals
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Roglič, according to a report in L’Equipe, is now at the end of a five-year, meticulously crafted plan that began in 2015 when was a neo-pro on the Dutch team, at a mere $47,000 salary (how these men race for peanuts!).
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It was a wild, headwind sprint and with the sprinters marginalized in the climber-heavy teams, there were no real lead-out trains to organize the finale. The “Pocket Rocket”, Caleb Ewan, risked losing in order to win.
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