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Ineos on song pre-Tour

As I write this, the Tour de France is only three days old, so I’ll save any comments on that for next issue and focus on the principal warm-up races: Critérium du Dauphiné and Tour de Suisse.

Seventeen seconds was the winning margin in both, as Ineos Grenadiers duo Richard Carapaz and Richie Porte highlighted the team’s embarrassment of, well, riches. Australian veteran Porte built on his maiden Tour podium from last autumn (while still at Trek-Segafredo) with his first ever

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