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Protestors bring World Cycling Championship race to standstill as riders wait up hill | Other | Sport

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Fellow former professional Adam Blyth added that the protest would work in the chasing peloton’s favour who would re-start faster than the breakaway. He added: “This could make a huge difference in the race. This stopping, neutralisation due to a protest going on. It could have a huge impact on the race.

“If the riders, when they got stopped in the peloton could now speed up to bring that time gap down. Without a race radio and information it could

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Junior doctors announce ANOTHER strike: Four-day August walk-out by the BMA will bring struggling NHS to standstill again

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Junior doctors will take to picket lines again next month, with tens of thousands of appointments expected to be cancelled.

The British Medical Association (BMA) is coordinating the four-day walkout in England, which will run from 7am on Friday August 11 to 7am on Tuesday August 15.

It marks the fifth strike by the medics since March. 

The union said junior doctors, many of whom earn more than £50,000, ‘are not going anywhere’ in their bid for an inflation-busting 35

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