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Le Tour Stage 14: Brains over Brawn

Le Tour Stage 14: Brains over Brawn

Plus previewing tomorrow's first stage in the Pyrenees

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Jul 10, 2021
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Le Tour Stage 14: Brains over Brawn
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The 14th stage of the 2021 Tour de France was a textbook transition stage that took the peloton from the rolling hills of Occitanie in Carcassonne to the base of the massive Pyrenees in the idyllic Quillan. Bauke Mollema, one of the most cerebral riders in the professional peloton, put his intellect to work to engineer a long-range solo breakaway victor…

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