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Romain Bardet

he sight of Romain Bardet plugging his way up a mountain alone, or in a gruppetto, after being dropped on yet another climb at last year’s Tour de France was a solemn sight; a great hope of French cycling eclipsed by countrymen Julian Alaphillipe and Thibaut Pinot. Bardet finished half an

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