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The Tour de France organisers wanted 'suspense to the end' but the Tourmalet stage design backfired dramatically – and they should have seen it coming

Including such a big climbing day so early has ensured that Tadej Pogačar is already in the lead by a healthy margin, with two weeks of racing still to go In pitching this Tour de France, "suspense until the end" was a repeated refrain from the race director, Christian Prudhomme, who insisted: "Until the last mountain stage, anything is possible." One week in, we have a gap of nearly three minutes betw... [5188 chars]

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