In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
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Question: On a day when Chris Froome has never been under greater scrutiny, when everything from his heart rate to his power output is being used as evidence against him, he responded by delivering a performance so astonishing he might just have this Tour de France won after 10 days. There are 11 more stages of course, and plenty more mountain passes to be scaled. But he could not be caught by his rivals here on the brutal 15km ascent to the ski station at La-Pierre-Saint-Martin and nobody in this race looks anywhere close to be able to close the gap before Paris.Team Sky rider started stage 10, 167km from Tarbes to La-Pierre-Saint-Martin, with a 12 second lead in the yellow jerseyChris Froome dominated the first mountain stage of the Tour de France to open up a 2 minute 52 second lead at the topTeam Sky says computers have been hacked to obtain Chris Froome's personal performance data 
 Question:By the time the road rose again to _-Pierre-Saint-Martin, he had won the stage by a minute.

Answer: La


Question: Crippling cuts to defence spending have left Britain unable to defend itself or stand up to Russia, according to the former head of the Army. General Sir Peter Wall said the 'consequences' of the squeeze on funding is now 'playing out' in the UK's approach to dealing with Vladimir Putin. He joins a growing chorus of criticism of the refusal by any of the main parties to protect defence spending from cuts after the election, despite a pledge to increase foreign aid budgets being enshrined in law. General Sir Peter Wall said the 'consequences' of the squeeze on funding is now 'playing out' in the UK's approach to dealing with Vladimir PutinSir Peter Wall says consequences of budget cuts are now 'playing out'UK is reluctant to face up to Russia incursions into airspace and watersJoins chorus of criticism of the impact of spending cuts on the militaryCameron under pressure to commit 2% of GDP to defence under UN target 
 Question:Up to 30,000 service personnel could go - with the _ likely to bear the heaviest cuts - leaving the armed forces with a combined strength of just 115,000 by the end of the decade, it predicted.

Answer: Army


Question: Kabul (CNN) At least 94 Islamic State fighters were killed when the US military dropped America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan, an Afghan official said Saturday. "The number of Daesh fighters killed in the US bomb in Achin district jumped to 94, including four commanders," Nangarhar provincial spokesman Attaullah Khogiani told CNN, using an alternative name for ISIS. "Our team is in the area and they are doing clearance, so the figure might change as they find more bodies," said Dawlat Waziri, a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Defense. The initial toll given by Afghan officials for Thursday's strike was 36. A statement released Friday through ISIS' media wing, Amaq News Agency, said none of the terror group's fighters were killed or injured. CNN cannot independently confirm the number of casualties.Four ISIS commanders were among those killed in the blast, Nangarhar official says"This was the right weapon against the right target," says top US general in Afghanistan 
 Question:US and _ forces had been unable to advance because ISIS -- which has expanded into Afghanistan in recent years -- had mined the area with explosives.

Answer:
Afghanistan