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Le Tour Stage 3 Update: Looking at the GC picture on a classicly French stage

Le Tour Stage 3 Update: Looking at the GC picture on a classicly French stage

No stage-win spoilers: We explore who has the better outside shot of the overall win and compare Jumbo/Ineos after a very traditional third stage

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Aug 31, 2020
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The third stage of the 2020 Tour de France couldn’t have been more typically French. The absurdly slow stage featured a single French rider in the breakaway (Jerome Cousins) with the fastest sprinter, Caleb Ewan, taking a convincing win in a slow-speed, slightly uphill sprint finish. As predicted, Julian Alaphilippe easily held onto Yellow, and Peter Sa…

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