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Fred Wright Tour diary

STAGE 3

FIRST TIME NERVES

Today was the first nailed-on sprint day and I was pretty nervous. Early sprint days in the Tour can be carnage, with GC teams fighting alongside the sprint trains.

Luckily, with two such savage days to start in the Basque Country, you could tell everyone was feeling it in the legs already – well, at least I was.

At the Tour more than any other race it’s all about being in

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