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Alberto Contador drags everyone onto the podium
The way a Grand Tour’s supposed to work is like gravy. You mix everything up, heat it and it’s delicious, but it’s only as it cools that you see the fat slowly rise to the top. In this analogy, fat’s the good bit because fat equals flavour. The thing is, fat alone doesn’t do the…
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Infant-faced Formolo first following bloody big break bedlam
Stage four was won by Italian rider, Davide Formolo, who looks like Peter Sagan’s younger brother’s even younger cousin. Yes, that does basically just add up to being Peter Sagan’s cousin, but saying that wouldn’t express how young Formolo looks. Really young. Formolo was in a monster break that contained about 30 riders. At one…
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Pozzovivo’s apparently not too bad considering he’s been hospitalised with head injuries
Speaking about being held up by a crash on stage two, Domenico Pozzovivo said: “I try to console myself, saying that the time lost isn’t as important as getting injured and I got through it okay.” A few hours later, he’d crashed. And not just your average slide-off-and-expose-your-buttocks-through-ripped-shorts crash. This was a bad one. He…
