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    STILLNESS & SPEED

    Oct 09, 2020 5 minutes
    Writer Edward Pickering
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    The most transcendental hour of the 2020 Tour de France came in the final 26km of stage 9, between the base of the Col de Marie-Blanque and the finish in Laruns. At the bottom of the Marie-Blanque, Sunweb’s Marc Hirschi was on his own, 3:30 ahead of the reduced peloton80:175, led by a line of Jumbo-Visma riders.

    The odds at this point in the race were against the Swiss. He’d been on his own since a short way into the Col de la Hourcère, 65km earlier, when he attacked a small group of riders who in turn were barely clear of the peloton, and he’d spent the interim time alone. The laws of physics do not favour lone riders against a peloton. The laws

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