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The catalyst came in May, in a pointed comment by Egan Bernal to a Spanish television station. Asked which of Ineos’s three former champions – Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas or Bernal himself – would lead the team at the Tour de France, he began with the old maxim that “the road will decide”, the sort of stock phrase he’d rolled out a hundred times before meaning whoever proved strongest over the opening days would become the de facto leader. But he added an unequivocal follow-up, interpreted in some quarters as a “warning” to his senior British teammates.“I’m young, I’ve already won one Tour de France and I’m not going to throw away an opportunity to win another Tour, that’s for sure,” Bernal, 23, told Eurosport Espana. “That I would sacrifice myself, being at 100 per cent? I don’t think I’m going to do that, nor will he [Froome], nor will anyone.”
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