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Jumbo lays claim to Tour de France favourite status

Jumbo-Visma marked themselves out as the team to beat at the Tour de France with a near flawless eight days at the Critérium du Dauphiné in which they won three stages and the overall.

Even that result underplays the Dutch team’s stranglehold on the race in which they were in the hunt for the win every single day. Wout van Aert won on the opening day, then missed out on stage two as the break

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