Tag: Arnaud Démare
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A Tao KO in the final round | A recap of stages 10-21 of the 2020 Giro d’Italia
In my recap of the first week of this Giro d’Italia, I wrote that British interest ended after Stage 1. That turned out to be a bold and not very great prediction because turned out Tao Geoghegan Hart won the thing. Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3… The Giro recommenced after the first rest day in…
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Stage four: Cavendish finds more give in roadside barrier than Sagan’s elbow
It was a day of aqueducts, châteaux and sheep. The flat profile meant the break was always going to be caught and when that break turned out to be just one rider – Belgian Guillaume Van Keirsbulck – everyone was set for a loooong day of racing. This is what 99 per cent of the…
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Arnaud Démare motors to Milan-San Remo win (plus Armitstead update)
The finale of Milan-San Remo is always a lot more exciting to watch than to talk about. So let’s not bother. To boil it down to almost nothing, after near-enough 300km of racing, Arnaud Démare won a sprint from a greatly reduced front group. Démare said that as he was sprinting, he didn’t know whether…