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Ten minutes in Paris with George Bennett, Tour de France 2019 Supreme Banana

Ten minutes in Paris with George Bennett, Tour de France 2019 Supreme Banana

Few riders at the 2019 Tour de France were put through the ringer like Jumbo Visma’s George Bennett, and none was more deserving of our...

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Supreme Banana: Tour de France 2019 – George Bennett

Supreme Banana: Tour de France 2019 – George Bennett

No other rider had more Tour ups and downs than the charismatic New Zealander, who worked his socks off for Kruijswijk after midrace misfortune

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 20 – Laurens De Plus

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 20 – Laurens De Plus

Laurens De Plus is a mellow fellow in yellow who matched Team Ineos pound for pound and pulled off a podium place for his captain

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 18 – Romain Bardet

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 18 – Romain Bardet

Bardet bounces back in the Alps, nabs a spotty jersey and lands a banana

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 17 – Kasper Asgreen

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 17 – Kasper Asgreen

Deceuninck’s Danish debutant has dazzled with his Tour de France workrate. At this rate of progression, he’ll be Kasper the friendly G.O.A.T

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 16 – Lotto Soudal

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 16 – Lotto Soudal

Mellow yellow: Lotto-Soudal go banana crazy en masse

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 15 – Lennard Kämna

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 15 – Lennard Kämna

Lennard Kämna: Sunweb’s Tour de France debutant riding Grand Tour winners off his wheel 

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 14 – David Gaudu

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 14 – David Gaudu

Waiting for Gaudu? No longer. The young Breton seizes the day on the Tourmalet

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 13 – Enric Mas

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 13 – Enric Mas

Deceunink-Quick Step’s young Spaniard Enric Mas sneaks into the white jersey and gives Alaphilippe an ace card in the mountains

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Top Banana: La Course by Le Tour 2019 – Amanda Spratt

Top Banana: La Course by Le Tour 2019 – Amanda Spratt

So near, yet so far for the Mitchelton-Scott fighter who made the running

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 12 – Matteo Trentin

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 12 – Matteo Trentin

A top team performance on tough terrain helps Simon Yates to his first Tour de France win – and yet another top ten for Matteo...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 11 – Emanuel Buchmann

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 11 – Emanuel Buchmann

King of invisibility, prince of stealth, Buchmann will ‘do a Zubeldia’ all the way to Paris

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 10 – Luke Rowe

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 10 – Luke Rowe

Welshman takes our French fancy and lands the fruit in crosswind chaos on the road to Albi

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 9 – Jasper Stuyven

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 9 – Jasper Stuyven

Sprinter, puncheur, breakaway artist, domestique – he was denied in Brioude, but the classy Jasper Stuyven is going to win a big race very soon

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 8 – Thomas De Gendt

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 8 – Thomas De Gendt

Stage winner Tenacious Thomas takes Top Banana in shock result

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 7 – Wout van Aert

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 7 – Wout van Aert

The Tour’s dazzling debutant has caught the eye throughout the first week. Why not a stage win for wondrous Wout?

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 6 – Geraint Thomas

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 6 – Geraint Thomas

They said he was playing second banana but his performance on La Planche proved Geraint Thomas is still top. In normal times it would be...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 5 – Tom Skujiņš

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 5 – Tom Skujiņš

You say potato, Tom Skujiņš says potatoes. For overcoming gastronomic adversity, getting himself out of the basement and giving it a go, Top Banana. The...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 4 – Max Richeze

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 4 – Max Richeze

The things riders are forced to do for their teams, eh? For the lead-out and the Lidl, Deceuninck Quick Step’s Max Richeze is today’s Top...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 3 – Michael Matthews

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 3 – Michael Matthews

A confidence boosting runner-up spot for the confused Australian. A stage win or two are on the cards for Matthews

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 2 – Tony Martin

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 2 – Tony Martin

Tony Martin was in the driving seat and a big part of another stunning win from Jumbo-Visma 

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 1 – Greg Van Avermaet

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 1 – Greg Van Avermaet

Hey, hey, GvA, what the heck did you do today? Smart racing from the Olympic champion bags a jersey

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