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Matilda Price

Are the Tour de France breakaways doing enough to try and beat UAE Team Emirates-XRG and Tadej Pogačar?

Alpecin - Premier Tech team's Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel leads a breakaway during the 9th stage of the 113th edition of the Tour de France.

We all know by now that breakaways and opportunists aren't being given much slack or chances to win stages at this Tour de France, with many commentators putting that down to UAE Team Emirates-XRG keeping several breaks close in order to launch Tadej Pogačar to stage wins.

This happened on stage 3 and stage 10, with both stages seeing the break given small gaps and then caught in advance of a Pogačar attack and stage win, despite there being no GC threats up the road.

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