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1. TIVANI Nicolas Aviludo - Louletano - Loulé Concelho

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3. MCGILL Scott Project Echelon Racing

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2. ULISSI Diego UAE Team Emirates

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❶	Opinion: We can't yet explain Tadej Pogačar's sudden leap
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❹	Haribos and havoc at the top of the Tour de France
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❻	A gift was not expected, but hope lingered, in final fireworks display of the Tour

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Kaye

Opinion: We can't yet explain Tadej Pogačar's sudden leap

This article has a lot of food for thought.

For starters, I think Dan Arielly does a good job in 'Predictably Irrational" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictably_Irrational) describing how we judge things realitive to other things. Things appear different based on the context they are perceived in. Pogacar may have dominated the Tour but Vingegaard lost by less time this year than Pogacar lost last... (more)

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Maiken

A gift was not expected, but hope lingered, in final fireworks display of the Tour

Grovelling? Jonas literally said that he didn't expect it and even that he would have done the same in Pogacar's shoes, but of course, he had a hope that maybe Pogacar would let him get away in the end.

It's just Jonas being honest and the media not giving enough context to the quote. He didn't expect anything.

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