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Wout Poels gets Team Sky its Monument – will probably celebrate with pneumonia
That’s Monument with an upper-case M. A Team Sky monument would be some sort of sleek branded laboratory which was all glass, chrome and empty spaces. A Team Sky Monument is the 2016 Liege-Bastogne-Liege, which for all its Grand Tour sucess is the team’s first absolutely top level one-day race win. I’ve mentioned this before,…
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Enrico Gasporotto – don’t worry about remembering the name
Enrico Gasparotto is a rider who shows up during the Ardennes Classics and at pretty much no other time. He won Amstel Gold in 2012 and has just won it again with an attack on the final climb. For that 2012 win, he edged out Jelle Vanendert who falls into the same category. It’s almost…
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Dan McLay looks like he can sprint
Let’s first deal with the inevitable ‘who?’ Dan McLay is a young British rider. Born in New Zealand and brought up in Leicester, he’s been plugging away in Belgium for the last few years, trying to get a pro contract. Bretagne-Séché Environnement gave him one (a pro contract) and he’s just won Grand Prix de…
