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America's three-time Tour de France winner has received the Congressional Gold Medal, an honor on par with the Presidential Medal Freedom.
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A three-week Grand Tour will always contain natural ebbs and flows, and, for much of Monday’s stage between Valenciennes and Dunkirk, it looked as if the peloton had declared an unofficial rest day, with the riders happy to cruise back towards the coast after a weekend of wind, rain and intensity.
Greg LeMond, one of the newest recipients of the Congressional Gold Medal, was raised near Reno, where he attended Wooster High School.
Just three days into the race, it’s clear we’re about to be treated to an epic duel between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard for the yellow jersey.
It is sometimes taken as a given that a lack of success has inhibited the nation's enthusiasm for its home race. Not a bit of it
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Staying in the north of France, stage three is a 178km run from Valenciennes to Dunkerque, with the finish line near the Calais coast. It’s a largely flat day in the saddle but for the return of the category-four climb of Mont Cassel, so important to the Tour’s organisers that they’ve included it twice, on both stage one and three.