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Power versus weight: Are the Tour de France’s top climbers getting heavier?

Power versus weight: Are the Tour de France’s top climbers getting heavier?

Jonas Vingegaard and Matteo Jorgenson are perhaps both expected to finish in the top five of this year’s Tour de France, lofty heights reserved for the sport’s climbers, but after stage two of the event last weekend, the pair joked about adopting a very different discipline. “You’re a sprinter now,” laughed Jorgenson, after Vingegaard had almost outsprinted Tadej Pogacar and …

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