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Richard Carapaz, Primoz Roglic and… Hugh Carthy? | A recap of stages 1-12 of the 2020 Vuelta a Espana
Let me tell you a story about two Grand Tour winners and a lad from Preston who sometimes stays up too late because he wants to watch the darts. There’ll be a slight whistle-stop quality to much of this recap because I’ve got two weeks of racing to get through. I’ll slow down when we…
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A Tao KO in the final round | A recap of stages 10-21 of the 2020 Giro d’Italia
In my recap of the first week of this Giro d’Italia, I wrote that British interest ended after Stage 1. That turned out to be a bold and not very great prediction because turned out Tao Geoghegan Hart won the thing. Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3… The Giro recommenced after the first rest day in…
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Julian Alaphilippe wins, loses, crashes out | An Autumn classics recap
The Giro d’Italia is still limping on. (Although it’s Covid-19 testing again today, so that sentence might not see out the afternoon.) Let’s take a break from Grand Tours this week though and instead turn our attention to the one-day racing that’s been taking place in recent weeks. This October batch of classics kicked off…
