• Winner Anacona lives up to his name

    That’s ‘Winner Anacona,’ not ‘winner, Anacona’ – although on this occasion misuse of commas and capital letters doesn’t actually matter that much because Winner won and is therefore also a winner. Let’s just call him Anacona for clarity. Anacona, who was only a couple of minutes down on the general classification, got himself into the…

  • Nacer Bouhanni finds a flat stage in the middle of the Vuelta

    It’s unusual for the Vuelta to get through an entire stage without taking a detour to go up some hill or other, but on stage eight it managed it. However, the Vuelta being the Vuelta, it still managed to fill this seemingly most predictable of days with its fair quota of uncertainty. It was a…

  • All I know about Alessandro De Marchi

    Alessandro De Marchi was out in the break a handful of times during the Tour de France. He didn’t win. On stage seven of the Vuelta, he spent the day in the break again. This time he did win. I put ‘de marchi’ into Google translate and it came up ‘de brands’. Alex of Brands.…

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