| Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano held on to the yellow jersey as he finished in the peloton while Lance Armstrong also stayed out of trouble. |
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| Favourite Lance Armstrong and yellow jersey wearer Thomas Voeckler finished stage seven safely in the peloton. |
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| But yellow jersey wearer Lance Armstrong finished safely in the peloton to protect his overall lead of the race. |
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| A peloton turned loose on a long stretch of pavement is the essence of bicycle racing. |
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| As I said earlier, Australia has so many great cyclists in the peloton, yet there are only five slots. |
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| From there, they will be given some rope off the front as the peloton rolls along at a comfortable speed. |
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| You can tell when you see him in the peloton that he is just excited to be here and racing. |
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| There are a lot of professional riders from Australia in the peloton that are not sprinters. |
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| The peloton had clicked into top gear from the very start on another baking-hot day in France. |
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| Fabian Cancellara retained the yellow jersey after finishing as part of a crowded peloton. |
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| After the peloton came back together there were many fruitless attempts to break away and the peloton arrived in Barcelona compact. |
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| With eight kilometers left in the race seven women broke away from the main peloton. |
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| He is off the back of the peloton and is receiving treatment from the race doctor. |
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| The winding first-category climb up Col d' Agnes is really taking its toll as the peloton strings out. |
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| Negotiating a bike downhill, through a peloton, with a front flat at over 65 kph is not good. |
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| That meant I had to race up front in the peloton all the time and had to react on every change and raise of pace. |
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| The peloton continues to make small inroads into the breakaway group's lead, but they seem content to allow the front runners to set the pace. |
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| The relatively short history of American cyclists in the European peloton has worked to our advantage. |
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| German veteran Jens Heppner retained the overall leader's pink jersey for the seventh consecutive day by finishing in the peloton. |
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| And he will again be one of the leading sprinters in the peloton throughout the race. |
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| Like I said yesterday, my big goal was to make it to the base of the last climb with the peloton and I did. |
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| The nine-man breakaway is finally caught by the first of the two pelotons with the second peloton around a minute back. |
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| With that in mind, we'll surely see a lot of these two pulling hard at the sharp end of the peloton in the days to come. |
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| In mountainous stages the peloton is likely to become fragmented, but in flat stages a split is rare. |
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| At the start, it was dry, but the peloton was bunched together and very nervous. |
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| The five riders were picked up by a chase group which detached itself from the sluggish peloton. |
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| The U.S. team hoping to place a rider in an early breakaway, but the peloton did not let that happen. |
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| Riders use every available bit of road, dirt, sidewalk or grass to get to the front of the peloton. |
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| After slipping off his bike in the peloton, he had almost made up the distance, but then punctured his front tyre, and has slipped back again. |
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| Meanwhile, Vichot, having just regained the peloton, suffers another flat tyre! |
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| After leading on his own for 149 km, Wegmann is finally absorbed back in the peloton but can rest assured that the polka-dot jersey is his for stage eight. |
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| Like cyclists huddled in the peloton, London's start-ups hope they can break away from the pack to sprint for victory. |
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| The route, however, will quickly go uphill as the peloton makes its way towards Calvi in northern Corsica. |
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| Whereas his former break-mates were caught one by one, 5 teams put their forces together in the peloton to chase down the Ukranian. |
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| It also appears that race leader Marcel Kittel suffered a minor crash when rejoining the peloton after answering the call of nature. |
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| Pim Ligthart is proof that the professional peloton can be formed on off the beaten track. |
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| The peloton, who had swallowed all but Kadri on the way up Holme Moss, were chastened by the climb and now sit a minute back. |
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| He caught up with the peloton — the main pack of riders — then did it again: cut onto the shoulder and flatted out. |
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| The riders are usually informed of the start proper by the organiser or commissaire travelling in front of the peloton waving a chequered flag. |
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| It is not a long climb but it is steep and the second ascent often splits the peloton. |
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| Tomorrow is a rest day for the peloton, so the race resumes on Wednesday. |
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| He said riders have always considered Armstrong two years ahead of the peloton when it came to doping. |
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| Despite some very hard attacks in the final laps of the races, and small breakaways coming from those attacks, the peloton still came into the last kilometer complete. |
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| The typical organized ride starts with a large group of riders, called the mass, bunch or even peloton. |
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| Those three riders did their job well and during the last lap, the yellow jersey himslef took most of the turns in the peloton, but they weren't able to chase down the break. |
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| And why have team support and neutral service cars cluttering up the peloton when you can simply call for a wheel or a bike from a friend in the peloton, regardless of their allegiance? |
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| Frédéric Le Peutrec made a superb tactical move on Sunday in heading west towards Tunisia to latch onto wind backing from NW to S. Gitana 11 is now just astern of the leader and Gitana X has made it back into the peloton! |
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| Anquetil was considered to be cold and calculating, though in the peloton he was as admired for his courteousness and sense of fair play as Poulidor was disliked for his bad temper and selfish tactics. |
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| He never could get past a climb among the 50 to 80 best in the peloton. |
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| Tinkoff-Saxo's attempt to bring Alberto back in the peloton was made difficult by the mountainous terrain and the high speed up front. |
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| Their lead reached four minutes before the peloton began to reel them back in, and the last remnants were picked up on the Great Orme. |
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| Froome, meanwhile, had a comparatively calm day as the peloton wended its way over two enormous Alpine cols, the 21 kilometre Glandon and 19 kilometre Madeleine. |
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| And when the young French man spoke out, there was Lance Armstrong, daddy of the dopers, to manhandle and humiliate him in front of the peloton. |
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| Other names to watch are Daniel Oss, who combines his love for cycling and music to bring a new attitude to the peloton, sprinter Jacopo Guarnieri, track rider Elia Viviani and promising stage racer Eros Capecchi. |
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| His statement of principle in the Guardian defined a new morality at the front of the peloton while sideburns and mod fashion enjoyed a summer renaissance as Wiggins crossed over from athlete to icon. |
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| Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 1.26pm BSThe:26 The peloton are huffing and puffing through some particularly vertiginous streets in Haworth. |
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| Saturday's lumpy, 161km eighth stage from Tomblaine to Gerardmer La Mauselaine provides a further test for the peloton, with the possibility a breakaway will prosper. |
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| A regiment of cavalry consists of six squadrons, each squadron of four pelotons, each peloton of two companies, each company of two escouardes, and each escouarde of two men. |
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| A shredded peloton arrived next at 10sec with Spaniard Alejandro Valverde winning the sprint ahead Slovakia's Peter Sagan and Frenchman Tony Gallopin. |
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| Commemoration events began early in the morning while the peloton rode through several World War I battlegrounds, including the Somme, and past numerous war cemetaries. |
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| Spain's Luis Leon Sanchez was already heading for victory when Wiggins, directing the Team Sky train at the front of the peloton, was forced to change wheels. |
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