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Eritrea's Biniam Girmay becomes the first Black rider to win a Tour de France stage
Read full article: Eritrea's Biniam Girmay becomes the first Black rider to win a Tour de France stageEritrean rider Biniam Girmay has become the first Black rider to win a Tour de France stage in the last leg in Italy.
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Carapaz outlasts Pogacar, U.S. rider McNulty to win road race
Read full article: Carapaz outlasts Pogacar, U.S. rider McNulty to win road raceEcuador's Richard Carapaz, star of a recent Netflix documentary, stole the show from Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar and unheralded American Brandon McNulty to win the Olympic men's cycling road race.
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Vive le Tour! With young winner, thrilling race defies virus
Read full article: Vive le Tour! With young winner, thrilling race defies virus(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)PARIS – In a first, the Tour de France winner wore a face mask on the podium Sunday, bright yellow to match the color of the iconic jersey so snug on his young shoulders. “Really, I was scared we wouldn't get to the end,” race director Christian Prudhomme conceded at the finish. And against the virus that doesn't care how old or young its victims are, how hopeful it seemed that the Tour's winner should come from the same generation asking itself: What is life going to be like for us? In an astounding reversal, he dethroned race leader Primoz Roglic, his countryman who had held the yellow jersey for 11 days. “Even in September, the Tour de France is magic!” Macron tweeted Saturday after Pogacar's demolition of Roglic in the time trial.