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Le Tour Stage 12: Mistral Winds & Classic Racing in Beautiful Occitanie

Le Tour Stage 12: Mistral Winds & Classic Racing in Beautiful Occitanie

The Tour's second week settles in as the breakaway artists start to shine as fatigue builds in the peloton

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Spencer Martin
Jul 08, 2021
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Stage 12 of the Tour saw the GC pressure cooker finally set to simmer and saw the breakaway artists get to work on the first flat day of this year’s Tour that has presented an opportunity to them. After a brutal fight to make the selection followed by a few hours of building up a massive 16-minute gap on the peloton behind, the burly German Nils Politt …

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