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There’s still a lot of racing to be done here, but over in the middle-east the latest stage of the UAE Tour has recently come to a close. Find out what happened here.
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They might yet see Leitão earlier than expected – the Portuguese rider has dropped out of the breakaway group.
The peloton has sat up, allowing the gap to grow all the way to over two and a half minutes. That’s the last they’ll see of those nine riders for a while.
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Those five riders are:
Make that nine riders – another five have bridged up to them.
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Attackers are flying out of the peloton, but nobody has managed to make anything stick yet.
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No rider is wearing the leader’s jersey after yesterday’s annulment. It’s as if the race is starting from scratch today.
So, on to today. The riders have just set off from the unofficial start, and will roll through a 7km neutralised zone before racing commences.
All in all it was a very embarrassing day for the organisers of the race, who have taken full responsibility for what happened.
There’s a great deal of dissatisfaction in the peloton. Wout van Aert and Marco Haller are…
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