Cycling: Ineos already have main Tour rivals playing catch-up

BRUSSELS - The Tour de France is only two days old but the newly-rebranded Team Ineos have already issued an emphatic response to anyone hoping a change of name for the world’s dominant cycle team might have diluted their aura.

The team’s road captain Luke Rowe said this week it had been a “copy and paste job” since Team Sky, winners of six of the last seven Tours, morphed into Ineos this year, with Britain’s richest man, new boss Jim Ratcliffe, allowing business as usual. Thomas and Bernal endured nervy rides in Saturday’s 194km opener, both snagged by a mass crash in the peloton inside the last three kilometers, although it cost them no time.

Dane Fuglsang, tipped as a pre-race favorite but left bloodied and bruised by a crash on Saturday, was relieved his Astana team only lost 21 seconds to Ineos. Thomas made the point that Jumbo-Visma’s Steven Kruijswijk, a dangerous all-rounder, took 20 seconds on him, but added that the team was “in a really good place.”

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Amazing effort! Looking at the faces 1 looks easy 2,3&4 look like they’re working hard!

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