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    Tour de France 2017 Stage 13: Saint-Girons > Foix 101 km

    Today's Giro Valle d'Aosta stage: Much better design?
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    South American race thread

    Congrats to Sergio! He deserves it. btw, Is it the 1st time a WT team/top team rider wins the Colombian nat road race title?
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    World Tour and Professional Continental teams 2017

    Re: I think the real reason is: China to curb risks from "irrational" outbound investment: http://www.reuters.com/article/china-economy-forex-idUSL4N1E141H?feedType=RSS&feedName=usDollarRpt
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    General News Thread

    Re: ToQL is hard to become WT race: first and most importantly, the race organizer always like the race to hold in July, the florescence for rape flowers. The organizer (Sports bureau for Qinghai province) always want the race to promote the local tourism. So it's inevitable to conflict with...
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    Lesser Known Race Results 2016

    Re: Re: He will retire at the end of the season. And there is no race for DMP right now so it should be his final race.
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    Lesser Known Race Results 2016

    Duque took the overall win of Tour of Taihu Lake. The comeback win just came in the final stage. It's a medium mountain stage with 2 KOM. Southeast and DMP controlled to race. Godoy and Fonzi took turn to attack in the final climb and Bayly response the attack very well. Duque tried to attack in...
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    General News Thread

    There will be a new WT race in China next year: Tour of Guangxi (6 stages). The first rumor was from some local media in June. Then Wanda confirmed in a webinar last week. There will be also a women race (one day race) in Guangxi too. And also cycling gala. The race was supposed to be held next...
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    Lesser Known Race Results 2016

    first stages of Tour of Taihu Lake: Oleksandr Golovash from Minsk cycling club won the prologue. Then Mareczko won the next two stages like what he dominated in the race last year. But Stage 3 is a MTF. The stage was cold, raining and foggy. Cameron Bayly solo to the stage win. Leonardo Duque...
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    Sylvain Chavanel - Super Domestique?

    did he have any track background before? I can't find any record in wiki. And he is already 37 now. That's a unbelievable transformation.
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    Transfers and Rumours 2016 > 2017

    Re: It's confirmed by Merida and cn now: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bahrain-merida-announce-meiyin-wang-signing/
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    Transfers and Rumours 2016 > 2017

    Nederlandse Loterij will replace Oranje Peloton as a co-sponsor of the Roompot team in 2017. Could someone tell me what is the differences between Nederlandse Loterij and LottoNL? Just diff companies? It looks almost the same for me.
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    Lesser Known Race Results 2016

    Re: imho, he don't have the physical tools other talent have. But he is very smart. So he knows how to use some skills and tactic to win the race(also some tricks, say peak in autumn to fight with some tired riders). Besides, he turned pro too early(I think he need to stay in U23 for at least...
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    Lesser Known Race Results 2016

    Stage 8 in Tour of Hainan: after some serous attack, Lutsenko won the stage. Lutsenko attacks about 20km to go with Niemiec sitting on his wheel. Mohoric bridged into the group but also brought the 2nd group. Mohoric then tried to attack but didn't success. Then he faded, not sure if he exploded...
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    Transfers and Rumours 2016 > 2017

    Diego Rosa officially signed by Team Sky, for a 3-year contact