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Shaw takes long road to the very top

It wasn’t long ago that James Shaw was sitting at home, spending nights on Linkedin sending CVs to a variety of professional cycling teams as he looked to keep his career in the sport alive. At just 23, the British rider had been dropped by Lotto-Dstny and was unsure as to what lay in store for him.

Fast forward five years, and the Nottinghamshire born rider has made his Tour de France debut and was at the sharp end of the action on stage six, the second of two huge mountain stages in the Pyrenees. Shaw was part of a large breakaway that

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