Colombia's Rigoberto Uran took the silver, while bronze went to Alexander Kristoff from Norway.
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And Uran, currently a member of the UK's Team Sky, is just one of several Colombians plying their trade with European outfits.
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The parties at war: the make-believe nations of Star and Uran in Karubeki Sekai ("The World That Is Coming"), a futuristic epic by the late Japanese cartoonist Tezuka Osamu.