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New Tour Down Under (2.UWT) Stage 4

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Tour Down Under (2.UWT) Stage 3

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25/01

Ruta de la Cerámica (ME)

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"I feel more of a burden of responsibility about getting this right than I've ever felt about anything professionally in my life."

by wade wallace
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Race Results

Results → road

New Tour Down Under (2.UWT) Stage 5

1. NARVAEZ Jhonatan

03:17:02

2. ONLEY Oscar

+0:00

3. FISHER-BLACK Finn

+0:00

Full Results

New Tour Down Under (2.UWT) Stage 4

1. COQUARD Bryan

03:55:15

2. BAUHAUS Phil

+0:00

3. NARVAEZ Jhonatan

+0:00

Full Results

Tour Down Under (2.UWT) Stage 3

1. ROMO Javier

03:46:01

2. NARVAEZ Jhonatan

+0:05

3. FISHER-BLACK Finn

+0:05

Full Results

Calendar → road

24/01

Tour of Sharjah (ME)

(2.2)

24/01

Classica Camp de Morvedre (ME)

(1.2)

25/01

Ruta de la Cerámica (ME)

(1.1)

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Hugh Christie

Daily News: Vingegaard calls on WADA to ban carbon monoxide amid fears rivals are abusing it

“Some teams divert its use by regularly inhaling low doses of carbon monoxide, which causes a significant gain in performance of their riders,” Vingegaard said. “This is not fair and the World Anti-Doping Agency should ban it.”

~6 months ago Ronan and the EC team released an article exposing this practice that many in cycling decried as being unfair and presented as click-bait media.

With this quote from Vingegaard all I can say is chapeau Ronan and chapeau EC for... (more)

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R. Chung

The new norm: Has Visma gone all-in on shorter cranks?

I've thought deeply about short cranks and my conclusion is that, in almost every case, they'd still be cranks if they were taller.

Chapeau 34 Reply