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My predictions for the Tour

Forget Paul the Octopus, Mystic Marcus the Psychic Pig, Achilles the Cat or those elephants that predicted the Super Bowl winner. The only animal oracles I’d trust to decide which two-time Tour winner will complete his hat-trick this July or whether one veteran Manx sprinter will finally jettison the Merckxian yoke are… Thibaut Pinot’s goats.

Why? Because the retired Frenchman no longer has any skinsuit in the game and his goats would show less bias than Tom Pidcock’s dachshund, Adam

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