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Sacha Modolo saves me an hour or so
Nothing remarkable happened in a stage of the 2015 Giro! You wouldn’t have thought it possible. A standard flattish stage, the break reeled in and a sprinter winning. No punctures, no crashes, no time penalties. Just a straightforward win for Sacha Modolo and no changes in the general classification. Frankly, by this point, this kind…
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Contador way better than Aru – but that probably ain’t saying much at the minute
The nuts and bolts of the story are these. At the foot of the really-rather-nasty Mortirolo climb (12.4km at 10.5%) – the penultimate of the day – Alberto Contador was on his own, about a minute behind Fabio Aru’s group, having punctured. At the summit, he was two minutes ahead. Being as Aru’s Astana team…
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Will the real 2015 Giro podium contenders please stand up
If Saturday’s time trial saw a bunch of charlatans ejected from the top ten, the following day’s mountain stage promised further rationalisation, which is why I held off doing a proper overview of where the race stands. It was the right decision. As we go into the second rest day, everything’s now much clearer. For…
