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...effectively. Usually a rider or group of riders will try to break from the peloton by '''attacking''' and riding ahead to reduce the number of riders competin ...ing the rider in front in order to stay in his [[slipstream]]. Riding in a peloton can save as much as 40% of the energy employed in forward motion when compa

...3 kilometres and these can be important in helping any breakaways if the [[peloton]] is held up by a train. At Asti the race swings north westerly towards Tur

[[Robbie McEwen]] won in 2002 after the peloton caught [[Erik Dekker]] with 500m remaining. Another [[Australia]]n [[Phil

...the finish. [[Laurent Jalabert]] and [[Maurizio Fondriest]] escaped the [[peloton]] in the [[1995]] edition and stayed away to the finish line. More recentl

...n be huge pileups that are hard to avoid for a rider farther back in the [[peloton]]. A crashed sprinter inside the final kilometre will not win the sprint, b ...e extended mountain climbs, most riders can manage to stay together in the peloton all the way to the finish; during mountain stages, however, it is not uncom

...his [[femur]] after falling at the start of the Trouée when leading the [[peloton]]. He said: ...in the 2005 race. Riders hit mud at speed and the crash spread through the peloton.