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Es difícil explicar desde cualquier otro país el peso mediático y emocional de Van Aert para Bélgica. Sirva este vídeo de un estadio de fútbol para ilustrarlo.
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Absolutely SUPERB piece by @_DavidSBates about taking part in an horrific 800km bicycle race... thetimes.com/article/03a6429…
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Exhausted but exhilarated: my 800km Badlands ride to redemption
Flying over the handlebars into a pine forest at 35km/h was not the narrative arc our writer was seeking, but the beauty of the Andalusian adventure lives on in his bones | ✍️ @_DavidSBates
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From a popped-out glass eye to Donal’s Donuts, we trace the history of this Lions since 1950 through the players’ voices and pages of The Times and Sunday Times
✍️ @AlexMLowe @willgkelleher
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Bradley Wiggins’ struggles with addiction make him just the latest elite cyclist to succumb to fall on hard times after the end of his career
So what is it about cycling? @_DavidSBates asks those in the sport why so many riders fall apart in retirement✍️
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Bombshell revelations in @dannycare’s new book about Eddie Jones, which we are serialising @TimesSport
“It was like living in a dictatorship, under a despot who disappeared people.”
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Exclusive: Felix Jones quits England.
Steve Borthwick's No2 was "unhappy with an unstable working environment".
Jones follows Aled Walters and Tom Tombleson out of Twickenham in three turbulent weeks.
Big scoop by @petersuntimes @TimesSport
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"Some see God. Or the Devil"
Hallucinations, severe pain and seven minutes of sleep: welcome to the mad world of ultra-cycling.
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Vuelta boss Javier Guillén told me earlier he’s confident Roglič will start the race in August…& Pogačar and Vingegaard won’t.
One footnote, with a smile: ‘At the start of the Tour Pogačar was 100% not coming, then he said it was 99% certain, so…’
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Exclusive: Tara Moore opens up on the two-year fight to clear her name after a positive drugs test in 2022.
“I always knew the truth, but it’s incredibly scary... Even now, I’m hundreds of thousands of pounds in debt.”
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⛰️⏱️ COL DU GALIBIER (last 8.51 km, 6.88 %, 585 m) | 🇫🇷 #TDF2024
2011 | 23:34 | F.Schleck
| 25:00 | A.Schleck (🏆)
2019 | 22:23 | N.Quintana (🏆
| 23:03 | Bernal
2022 | 23:47 | Meintjes
| 24:27 | PELOTON
2024 | ~20:50 | Pogacar
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Exclusive interview with Jannik Sinner, the world No1 and narrow Wimbledon favourite, on his rise and rivalry with Carlos Alcaraz.
"[I cried] after [losing to] Carlos in the US Open, also a bit at Roland Garros… It means you care about the sport.”
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Kane looks like he’s running through treacle. And his legs are also made of treacle. And there’s treacle in his lungs and in his eyes and in his soul. And he’s wading, he’s really trying, but it’s just all treacle and you can’t really tell where the treacle ends and he begins
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In Zona Alta, the narrow mountain roads were fit to burst with the vast, garish apparatus of at least ten professional cycling teams, encamped in preparation for the Tour de France.
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Very interesting again by @_DavidSBates
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🚴 Inside Lidl-Trek’s training camp at 2,300m altitude
✍️ @_DavidSBates finds out how elite riders prepare for the world’s hardest bike race high in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada base that is home to several teams for three weeks ⬇️
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EXCLUSIVE: Man City launch unprecedented legal action against Premier League. Has sparked civil war among clubs with hearing due to start on June 10. City describing PL financial rules as ‘tyranny of the majority’. Full story here on @TimesSport
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