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Alaphilippe back in yellow as Tour favourites hover

Covid-19 may have radically changed the general and sporting landscape, but on the road at least the 2020 Tour de France had a familiar look as it moved away from its Grand Départ in Nice to head west.

Inevitably, the peloton was nervous, its edginess heightened by a downpour that was long-awaited by gardeners on the Côte d’Azur but washed out a lethally slippery mix of oil, petrol and rubber onto the road surface, turning it into a skating rink on which more than half of the

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