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Big German guy wins sprint in 2016 Giro d’Italia
But it wasn’t Marcel Kittel. Greipel wins! Take that, pedals! Andre Greipel’s ‘thing’ is being a big, muscular, pedal-mashing ball of angry, gaping-mouthed power. It therefore seems somewhat counterintuitive that he should win stage five of the Giro through his climbing. But that’s essentially what he did. Over 233km of undulating roads, Greipel endured. When…
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Diego Ulissi can still do hills – but can he do mountains?
I tipped Diego Ulissi as a rider to watch in 2014. He won a couple of stages of the Giro, but then took three too many puffs on his inhaler and found himself banned for a bit. The stage he won today was the kind I associated him with at the start of that season.…
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Marcel Kittel corners the market on Giro road stage wins outside Italy
Marcel Kittel won stage two from Arnhem to Nijmegen. Unsurprisingly, stage three from Nijmegen to Arnhem didn’t offer radically different terrain, so he won again. The deja vu was compounded by two of yesterday’s breakaway riders – Maarten Tjallingii and Giacomo Berlato – getting in the break again. In 2014 – the only other time…
