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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 21

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 21

Nick and Andy not only correctly called that yesterday's stage would come down to the GC contenders, but that the young man from East London...

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Rouleur predicts.... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 20

Rouleur predicts.... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 20

"It just goes to show, you need bike racers to have a bike race." The UCI and Giro race director Mauro Vegni might not have liked...

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Rouleur predicts.... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 19

Rouleur predicts.... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 19

What a day that was, eh? Who'd have thought the Stelvio would liven things up? *looks to camera* It was a stage that not only provided...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 18

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 18

Who thought Ben O'Connor could go long twice in a row? Not us, that's for sure. The Cycling Mole came close with his pick of Ilnur Zakarin, but...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 17

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 17

Roglic's win in Spain and Tratnik's triumph at the Giro was the first time two Slovenian riders had won Grand Tour stages on the same day...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 16

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 16

Have we all had a good rest? Then we'll begin. Tay-o, Tayyyyyy-o. Although Hackney's Geoghegan Hart won the final stage before the final week, none...

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Rouleur predicts... The Men's Tour of Flanders 2020

Rouleur predicts... The Men's Tour of Flanders 2020

"Everything you can do to prepare, prepare it. Know the course well, it helps you out in the end." Tom Boonen

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 14

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 14

The Giro's second race of truth takes us to within a week of completing our second Grand Tour of 2020. We may yet not make it,...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 13

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 13

Flat, flat, flat, little lump, littler lump, flat. All in for Sagan? Almost...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 12

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 12

No duplicate picks today as the herd separates on a much harder day to call. Another breakaway day fancied, so it's Masnada, Ulissi, Matt Holmes...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 11

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 11

As we head over (what is hopefully) the halfway hump, a new player has entered the arena...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 10

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 10

Portugal are having a good Giro, wouldn't you say? A week in the maglia rosa and a stage win on Sunday for Ruben Guerreiro. Team...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 9

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 9

The only way was Essex on Stage 8, as Alex Dowsett gave his all to take his first win on the road since 2011. Who will rise to the...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 7

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 7

Who's got that Friday feeling? Three Italians versus one Frenchman go into the mix for today's picks

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 5

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 5

Well, how about that? The Cycling Mole didn't think it would come down to a bunch sprint and it did! In his defence the rider both...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia, Stage 4

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia, Stage 4

If in doubt, Sunweb? While the Rouleur team herd towards the thoroughbred sprinters, The Cycling Mole has his eye on another shiny stallion...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 3

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 3

Close but no cigar yesterday, as Miles and Cycling Mole's pick of Peter Sagan was pipped to the post and his first Giro stage win...

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Rouleur predicts... Liège-Bastogne-Liège Hommes

Rouleur predicts... Liège-Bastogne-Liège Hommes

A Monumental 40 consecutive days of WorldTour racing is barely beginning. Strap yourselves in as we attempt to pick the winner for every one of them...

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Rouleur predicts... Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes

Rouleur predicts... Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes

Love Liège, go Dutch? The Netherlands' women have been dominant in the one-days of late. Will their run continue in an out of place LBL?

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 1

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 1

What's the only thing better than an uphill time trial? A downhill one. Can we predict the Giro as well as we did Le Tour?...

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Tiesj Benoot

Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 16

Our Ben got a score on the board for stage 15, correctly picking Tadej Pogacar to win on Grand Colombier.  That's nine out of 15...

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Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 15

Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 15

It's a brutal day in the Alps to Grand Colombier. Cycling Mole has short shrift for certain selections, while he opts for the race's breakaway...

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Thomas de Gendt

Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 14

"As required in the tradition of the 'bouchons lyonnais' (typical Lyon restaurants), the menu will be dense and promises a battle between the breakaway specialists,...

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Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 12

Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 12

PHOTOS: OFFSIDE/L'EQUIPE The longest day, certainly in distance terms, with 218km on the cards for the tired legs of the peloton. Time for the break to...

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Roglic

Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 9

Meaty, beaty, big and bouncy. It's the second day in the Pyrenees and we have a proper GC battle on our hands. Jumbo-Visma looked less...

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Lizzie Deignan

Rouleur predicts... La Course

Here we go then. A trifling 96km for the women on Sunday, while the guys are beginning their three-week jaunt around France. Ho hum... It...

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Egan Bernal

Rouleur predicts... Tour de France stage 1

PHOTOS: OFFSIDE/L'EQUIPE   Will this Tour produce the anticipated fireworks? Can Jumbo-Visma really challenge the unstoppable Ineos express for GC honours? And, most importantly, will...

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Rouleur predicts... Il Lombardia

Rouleur predicts... Il Lombardia

WORDS: NICK CHRISTIAN | PHOTOS: PRESSESPORTS/GOMEZ/CORVOS/SWPIX.COM/LAPRESSE After the success of Top Mañana and Tomorrow’s Worlds, we’ve expanded the franchise of our popular race prediction game...

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Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 7

Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 7

We’ll meet again… Don’t know where… don’t know when… Stage 7, we’ve made it to Nice, when many thought we wouldn’t and many more thought...

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Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 6

Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 6

Stage 6 finally finds us finishing a stone’s throw from the Côte d’Azur. It also finds our panelists arguing over whether this will be a...

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