Tour de France: Boasson Hagen makes the final cut, just misses stage win

Edvald Boasson Hagen came close to giving Dimension Data yet another Tour de France stage victory on Tuesday in Revel. The Norwegian made it into the crucial break but didn’t have the legs to match stage winner Michael Mathews (Orica-BikeExchange) and world champion Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) and was edged out into third place.

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Born in Ireland to a cycling family and later moved to the Isle of Man, so there was no surprise when I got into the sport. Studied sports journalism at university before going on to do a Masters in sports broadcast. After university I spent three months interning at Eurosport, where I covered the Tour de France. In 2012 I started at Procycling Magazine, before becoming the deputy editor of Procycling Week. I then joined Cyclingnews, in December 2013.