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Latest from Cyclingnews·@josh.croxtonfuturenet.comJoshCroxton·2 months ago
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The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox! You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful I forget who said it, but there's a saying that goes something along the lines of 'professional cycling is an individual sport, practised in teams'. Only one man or woman can win the race, but they cannot do it without the help of their teammates. As such, a professional team is made up of different roles. The leaders, of which there is usually just one per team but sometimes two or three, and the support riders, known as domestiques, who come in dozens of different guises. Some support riders are there simply to fetch the bottles from the team car, others to provide a lead-out for their sprinter, some go off into the breakaway to force other teams to chase, while others are responsible for said chase.…

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