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Steven Kruijswijk still infuriatingly insistent that I keep typing out his name
For the second day in a row, race leader Andrey Amador was dropped on a climb only to scorch down the descent and catch the men who left him. It would have been an exceptional recovery if that had been the end of the stage. Sadly for Amador, it wasn’t. By the end of the…
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Mikel Nieve should probably have found himself racing for more than mere stage wins
Apparently there’s an area called the Julian Alps and that’s where the Giro was today. They should knock on Julian’s door more often. He’s fun. The stage win Mikel Nieve adopted the increasingly common ‘strongest man in the day’s break’ approach to win this particular stage. It was some rare good news for Team Sky,…
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Andre Greipel is still riding and still winning
Greipel wins! Take that, pedals! I didn’t watch it, but it sounded like a fairly generic sprint stage. Greipel is the best sprinter left in the race and the very fact that he is still in the race arguably makes a case for his being the best sprinter to have been in the race as…
