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Andre Greipel doesn’t even feel the need to hit peak pedal-mash
Greipel wins! Take that, pedals. The man they call The Gorilla (but who I call The Basking Shark on account of his gigantic mouth) didn’t even seem to need to hit full pedal-mashing fury to take stage two. He dedicated the victory to his mum. It was the seventh Giro d’Italia stage win of the…
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Lukas Postlberger inaugurates Quest’s free-to-air highlights show
Reading this sentence back, I’m seeing the name Lukas Postlberger for about the fifth time in my life. It’s safe to say that the winner of the first stage of the Giro d’Italia was something of an outsider. This is the first Grand Tour the 25-year-old Austrian has ever ridden. After one stage, he has…
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Riders to watch at the 2017 Giro d’Italia
The Giro d’Italia starts this week. Who are the contenders? In no particular order (largely because I wanted to separate the two pictures)… Nairo Quintana Going by who tends to get closest to Chris Froome on one of his good days, Quintana’s the class of the field. He’s racing both the Giro and the Tour…
