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Vincenzo Nibali – part man, part sidecar
The most interesting aspect of stage two for me was big Tom Dumoulin finishing second. It would be good to see a time triallist competing for Grand Tours again. It would bring a new dimension to the racing. I doubt it’ll happen this year, but consider this some sort of foreshadowing of things to come.…
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Introducing the contenders for the 2015 Vuelta a Espana
BMC won the opening team time trial of the 2015 Vuelta and that’s pretty much all I have to say about that. The times don’t even count for the overall. The organisers responded to riders’ concerns about the sandy sections of the route by ruling that only the stage win was up for grabs and…
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Stage 11 of the 2015 Vuelta looks really rather hard
I don’t usually do stage previews of anything other than Tour (and I don’t do many of those), but stage 11 of this year’s Vuelta stands out as being among the most intense ever seen in a Grand Tour. It’s not long. Quite the opposite, in fact. At just 138km, it’s pretty dinky, even by…
