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Who is Fiona Kolbinger? The medical student who has become the first woman to win the Transcontinental Race…

What we know so far about an elusive German medical student who stormed to an overall victory at the brutal Transcontinental Race, in what will go down as one of the most remarkable sporting stories of the year…

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