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Giro Donne 2022 debrief: Six talking points from an action-packed edition

Giro Donne 2022 debrief: Six talking points from an action-packed edition

Key learnings from a hotly contested edition of the Giro Donne

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Tour de France 2022 stage 10 preview - Out of the rest day, into the mountains

Tour de France 2022 stage 10 preview - Out of the rest day, into the mountains

Preview of stage 10 of the 2022 Tour de France, a 148.1km ride to a summit finish at Megève

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Beat the heat  – how pro riders hydrate and acclimatise during the Tour de France

Beat the heat – how pro riders hydrate and acclimatise during the Tour de France

The Tour de France often sees temperatures over 40°C. It’s why the WorldTour teams delve into the science to dial in their acclimation and hydration...

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Six takeaways from week one of the Tour de France 2022

Six takeaways from week one of the Tour de France 2022

A thrilling week of racing has left the race tantalisingly open, but there's one man who's still ending up top of the pile

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The state of play: why Jumbo-Visma and Ineos Grenadiers need to risk it all to topple Tadej Pogačar at the Tour de France

The state of play: why Jumbo-Visma and Ineos Grenadiers need to risk it all to topple Tadej Pogačar at the Tour de France

Analysing how things stand at the Tour on the first proper rest day, and what needs to happen to depose Pogačar from the top of...

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Thibaut Pinot and the life-affirming beauty of imperfection

Thibaut Pinot and the life-affirming beauty of imperfection

The Frenchman came close to a stage win in Pré-la-Joux, but with Pinot, defeat is as meaningful as victory

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Getting the shot: Alpine redemption

Getting the shot: Alpine redemption

James Startt explains how he captured his shot of Bob Jungels on stage nine of the 2022 Tour de France

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'At some point, I’ll win a stage': Fred Wright’s breakaway of hope and disappointment at the Tour de France

'At some point, I’ll win a stage': Fred Wright’s breakaway of hope and disappointment at the Tour de France

The Brit worked hard to get into the move in stage eight of the Tour de France. He made it, but with only two other...

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Getting The Shot : Power, Speed And Emotion

Getting The Shot : Power, Speed And Emotion

James Startt explains how he got his shot of Wout van Aert in full flight during the sprint in stage eight of the Tour de...

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The perfect stage: what stage eight of the 2022 Tour de France says about modern cycling

The perfect stage: what stage eight of the 2022 Tour de France says about modern cycling

The Lausanne stage of the Tour could have been won by anybody. So of course, Wout van Aert was the victor

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Tour de France 2022 stage nine preview: to the mountains

Tour de France 2022 stage nine preview: to the mountains

A steady ramping up in intensity as the 2022 Tour tackles two first-category climbs in Switzerland before returning to France for a finish above Châtel

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Too many cooks: is one team leader better than multiple at the Tour de France?

Too many cooks: is one team leader better than multiple at the Tour de France?

Pogačar is the only GC contender in UAE Team Emirates, meaning his team can give him full focus as the leader. Is this one of...

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Getting The Shot : Mano a Mano On La Planche

Getting The Shot : Mano a Mano On La Planche

James Startt on how he got his shot of Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard vying for stage victory atop La Super Planche des Belles Filles

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Fine young cannibal: has Tadej Pogačar won the Tour?

Fine young cannibal: has Tadej Pogačar won the Tour?

Tadej Pogačar is inexorably bending the 2022 Tour de France to his will, with a second consecutive stage victory atop La Super Planche des Belles...

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Tour de France 2022 stage eight preview: A punchy route to Lausanne

Tour de France 2022 stage eight preview: A punchy route to Lausanne

A lumpy and bumpy stage takes the Tour peloton through and over the Haut-Jura en route to an uphill finish in Lausanne on the shores...

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How to make sure you never miss a second of the Tour de France 2022

How to make sure you never miss a second of the Tour de France 2022

Catch every moment of the Tour de France live and on demand with GCN+

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Tour de France 2022 stage seven preview - the first summit finish

Tour de France 2022 stage seven preview - the first summit finish

The first true summit finish of the 2022 Tour de France is also its steepest, with a testing last few hundred metres on gravel

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Getting The Shot: Inspiration, Van Aert style

Getting The Shot: Inspiration, Van Aert style

James Startt explains how he got his shot of the day on stage six of the 2022 Tour de France

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Solo attacks: how the big riders are shaping the Tour de France

Solo attacks: how the big riders are shaping the Tour de France

Today’s stage to Longwy was all about Wout van Aert, just like the day before that, and the day before that. Are fewer riders taking...

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How can Tadej Pogačar be beaten?

How can Tadej Pogačar be beaten?

Cobbles, mountains, time trials, he can do it all. Tadej Pogačar has been a cut above in this year’s Tour de France so far. Can...

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EF Education-EasyPost try to move on after Tour de France cobbled chaos

EF Education-EasyPost try to move on after Tour de France cobbled chaos

The team blame miscommunication and broken radios on their questionable tactics yesterday

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'I have the legs to win' Caleb Ewan laments lead-out train and bad luck at the Tour de France

'I have the legs to win' Caleb Ewan laments lead-out train and bad luck at the Tour de France

The Australian sprinter hasn't had the start to the Tour he'd hoped for, but believes he can still compete for victory if luck is on...

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Pogačar thrives as Jumbo-Visma’s strength-in-depth prevails: Analysing the Tour de France cobbles stage

Pogačar thrives as Jumbo-Visma’s strength-in-depth prevails: Analysing the Tour de France cobbles stage

A chaotic stage five on the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix proved mix fortunes for the GC contenders

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Opinion: The cobbles were a day of wasted opportunity for EF Education-EasyPost

Opinion: The cobbles were a day of wasted opportunity for EF Education-EasyPost

Strange tactics might have cost the team the yellow jersey and the stage win. What could have been?

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A day in the dust: Tour de France 2022 Stage Five Gallery

A day in the dust: Tour de France 2022 Stage Five Gallery

A crazy day at the Tour de France in images

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Panic, headless chickens and the God out of the machine: stage five of the 2022 Tour de France

Panic, headless chickens and the God out of the machine: stage five of the 2022 Tour de France

The cobbles of northern France shook the Tour de France up, as expected. We look at how the race changed in a momentous day

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Tour de France 2022 stage six preview – the longest stage

Tour de France 2022 stage six preview – the longest stage

The 2022 Tour de France hits punchier terrain, starting in Belgium then crossing into France for the first uphill finish of the race in Longwy

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Tour de France 2022 Bikes: Mathieu van der Poel's Canyon Aeroad

Tour de France 2022 Bikes: Mathieu van der Poel's Canyon Aeroad

The fiery, sleek, aero bike that MVDP is riding in this year's Tour

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Getting the shot: the peloton and Mont Cassel

Getting the shot: the peloton and Mont Cassel

James Startt explains how he went back to French cycling's roots to find a classic town shot of the Tour's stage four

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Wout van Aert is the best cyclist in the world

Wout van Aert is the best cyclist in the world

The Belgian finally added a stage win to his run of second places - by dropping the entire Tour de France peloton on the Côte...

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