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    THE STRONGEST TEAM EVER

    Feb 05, 2021 4 minutes
    Writer Edward Pickering
    Image De Waele/Getty Images

    Tao Geoghegan Hart’s victory in the Giro doesn’t exactly make life difficult for Ineos Grenadiers, even if it was relatively unexpected. There are precisely no circumstances in which the team wouldn’t have taken that win. However, that’s not to say that it won’t cause complications.

    Dave Brailsford has put together possibly the strongest and deepest grand tour team in cycling history. The easiest part of building such a team is buying in the riders. Brailsford has the largest budget in the WorldTour, which is why he can afford no fewer than eight riders who have finished in the top 10 of a grand tour (and if Micha? Kwiatkowski had ridden the 2013 Tour de France 81

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