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    THE QUIET ACHIEVER

    Aug 07, 2020 3 minutes
    WRITER: EDWARD PICKERING
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    or the Tour de France and Thibaut Pinot, it was love at first sight. But it took a long time for Pinot to reciprocate. When he appeared out of the Vosges for his first attempt at La Grande Boucle in 2012, aged barely 22 and the youngest rider in the Tour, his dramatic stage win in Porrentruy captured the imagination of the race and its followers. He hared into the finish, powered

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