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  • Eurosport are showing every stage of the Tour from beginning to end this year. That's a lot of Carlton and Sean but at least we'll get to see how the breaks form.
    tiz-cycling.racing have good quality coverage of Paris-Nice and Tirreno an hour or two after they finish, normally the last hour of P-N and two hours of T-A.
    Thomas is definitely clean, apart from his magic wrist band. Convicted doper Simon Yates did a great ride today though.
    I'm not sure why Sky think Thomas can get on the podium at the Giro. Or if they really do. There are about half a dozen riders at Sky who have a better record in Grand Tours than he does. I'm tempted to think they want to let him try just to prove he can't do it and force him to choose between staying as a super domestique or leaving since he's probably not their best bet in the classics anymore either.

  • I think it's partly that, but I also think he's earnt the chance to have a crack at the GC on a three week stage race based on his results in shorter stage races.

    I don't know how he'll fare, but he's chosen to ride the Giro in a year when it's going to have its strongest line up in years.

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