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Alone Together TDF20-118
It was the Ineos-Grenadiers guys, Michal Kwiatkowski and Richard Carapaz, who were the first to hit the gravel section on the top of the Montee du plateau de Glieres. The announcers on NBC Sports were equating this stretch of road to Paris Roubaix, but it is more clearly a mini Strade Bianchi. Perhaps Phil Liggett didn't want to draw attention to a race that NBC doesn't broadcast.