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Jul 15 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
#BREAKING Mads Pedersen of Denmark wins Tour de France stage 13
#UPDATE Danish double as Pedersen wins stage, Vingegaard retains Tour de France lead
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#UPDATE Mads Pedersen became the third Dane to win a stage on this year's #TourDeFrance when an escape group beat the peloton to Saint-Etienne on a baking hot dash across the Rhone Valley.

u.afp.com/wrrf #AFPsports Danish cyclist Mads Pedersen
With the heat rising along the #TourDeFrance route, organizers are trying to make sure the road doesn't actually melt.

Answer? Dumping tens of thousands of liters of water on it.

u.afp.com/wrrB #AFPSports

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