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Dr Hutch

’m writing this during the Ventoux stage of the Tour. By the time the magazine is published, that will be a week in the past. I wouldn’t normally mention it – it just emphasises the glacial pace of putting stuff in actual print. But I’m going to write about Mark Cavendish, and by the time you read this it seems to me

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