'We'll continue fighting for stages': Buoyant Cofidis target yet more Tour de France success

The French team claim their second victory of this year's race, well and truly ending their status as the Tour's whipping boys

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For 15 years Cofidis failed to win a single stage of the Tour de France, now at the halfway point of the 2023 edition they already have two victories and are the second most winningest team in the race.

After Victor Lafay’s win in San Sebastián on stage two, Ion Izagirre doubled up for the French team in Belleville-en-Beaujolais on stage 12, attacking on the final climb from the breakaway and winning by 58 seconds.

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