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    TOUR DEBUTANTS

    Jul 07, 2022 4 minutes

    Forty riders rolled down the start ramp in Copenhagen to make their Tour de France debuts last weekend. One of them, Italian Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers), came within seconds of pulling on the yellow jersey after the first stage. A rider winning on their Tour debut isn’t that uncommon; Fernando Gaviria did it in Fontenay-le-Comte on stage one in 2018, Fabian Cancellara in Liège 2004, and David Millar in Futuroscope in 2000.

    Not all the debutants will taste success in their first Tour; some of them won’t make it to the finish in Paris, others might not make it to the end of the first week, while many of them will get through the race, doing their job, working for a

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