Tag: Chris Horner

  • Eight pairs to watch in the 2014 Vuelta a Espana

    There aren’t enough race previews binding riders together into twos. Let’s be honest, all the best things come in pairs. Also Twixes. The Chrises – Chris Horner and Chris Froome Horner won last year. Froome’s one of the big favourites to win this year. What more do you need to know? Horner’s age, maybe? He’s…

  • Yellow jersey contenders in 2014

    Who’s going to win this year’s Tour de France? Probably one of these guys and most likely one of the first two. But plenty can happen over the course of a Grand Tour. Just think what you were doing three weeks ago. Okay, it was probably much the same, but you almost certainly aren’t operating…

  • Michael Matthews was the sprinter who was glad he turned up for the 2013 Vuelta

    No-one else was. Two sprint finishes. Two Michael Matthews wins. The Chris Horner post-Vuelta interview on ITV4 Was one of the most extraordinary slabs of gibberish I’ve ever heard. It was a bizarre collage of  amazings and beautifuls. UK readers can see and hear it here. The gibberishiest gibberish comes from around 39 minutes in.…

  • Chris Horner’s standing climbing style wins him the Vuelta

    There’s a phrase in cycling: ‘dancing on the pedals’. It’s used when a rider gets out of the saddle on a steep slope. The finest exponents sway sinuously, the bike flicking from side-to-side beneath them. Several times during this Vuelta, commentators have said that Chris Horner has been dancing on the pedals. If Chris Horner…

  • Joaquim Rodriguez would like a bit more Vuelta

    Perhaps irritated by Chris Horner’s habit of making him sound like he’s from Turkey or somewhere, “Hakim” Rodriguez finally found the zip he seems to have been lacking for most of the Vuelta and won stage 19 with one of his vertical sprints. Just as in the Tour, Purito appears to be coming into his…

  • It’s a good job Vincenzo Nibali has tooth skin

    Because that’s the amount by which he’s retained the lead in this year’s Vuelta. It’s not looking good for Vince Nibbles. He tried to follow Chris Horner on stage 18’s final climb, the Pena Cabarga, but couldn’t. Nor could any of the other main contenders and the middle-aged American now hovers just three seconds away…

  • Little Chris Horner attacked on a corner

    What were you doing in 1971? Chris Horner was being born. That was a long, long time ago and yet here he is, in 2013, beating the fittest athletes in the world on a mountain stage of the Vuelta a Espana to take the race lead. I’m not entirely sure what’s going on. In one…

  • Chris Horner wins one for the middle-aged

    A lot of people resign themselves to poor physical condition by the time they’re 30, saying that they’re getting old and implying there’s little they can do about it. But they’re not paunchy because of their age; they’re paunchy because they spend all their time behind a desk, eating Frazzles. Look at Chris Horner. He’s…