Tag: Andre Greipel
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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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Andre Greipel holds his bike in the air in celebration
Greipel wins! Take that, pedals! For a Tour de France that has at times felt surprisingly familiar, there was one last thing to tick off. Since 2008, Andre Greipel has won at least one stage in every Grand Tour he’s entered. He left it late this year. Indeed, it wasn’t until the very moment that…
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Green jersey contenders in 2016
I’ve been putting off writing this points competition preview for a few days now and presumed there was some reason for this – nothing conscious, just some mystic message from the cosmos saying: “No, don’t bother yet. Play Civilization or go to the pub or something.” Turns out the cosmos was right. Everyone else is…
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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…
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Andre Greipel’s legs and bike continue to work well
Greipel wins! Take that, pedals! Cycling is a messy sport. Given a clear run, Marcel Kittel would win every sprint in this race. Even Andre Greipel says his countryman is the quickest sprinter by some margin. Yet as things stand, Kittel has two wins and Greipel also has two wins. It wasn’t Kittel’s legs that…
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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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Andre Greipel makes a 3D box for his claim to be top sprinter at the 2015 Tour de France
Greipel wins! Take that, pedals! Back when I worked in an office alongside other humans, I’d often note down something I needed to do using pen and paper – like cro magnon man used to do. A day later, when I hadn’t done it and the job was now quite urgent, I’d underline the words…
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Andre Greipel doesn’t get dropped
Greipel wins! Take that pedals! If you’re wondering why I always say that, it’s because Andre Greipel is the most hard-pedalling of all the Tour riders. Other sprinters may sometimes be faster, but they don’t have to push the German’s huge and not-particularly-aerodynamic frame through the air. There’s also his gargantuan basking shark mouth, which…
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How many wins before a rider’s not considered second-best?
Greipel wins! Take that pedals! At one point Andre Greipel was the second-best sprinter at HTC-Columbia after Mark Cavendish. Then, for a long time, he was the second-best sprinter in the world after Mark Cavendish. More recently, he’s slipped a notch and has only been the second-best German sprinter after Marcel Kittel. But suddenly, in…
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Andre Greipel rides like the wind – which on this stage meant in brutal, destructive fashion
Greipel wins! Take that pedals! At the finish, Mark Cavendish’s Etixx-Quick Step team made a bollocks of it. Starting his effort early, Cavendish seemed to be sprinting for an age with a great line of riders just chilling out behind him, biding their time. Other than Greipel, Peter Sagan and Fabian Cancellara also went past…