Tag: Cadel Evans

  • The slide of Cadel Evans

    Sadly, I’m not talking about a cool plastic chute affixed to the side of his houseboat. Cadel’s on the wane. Slowly, but perceptibly, he’s on the way out – in this race and from cycling. But first, stage 17, which I didn’t report on yesterday. King of the nutcases takes a proper win I’ve written…

  • Rigoberto’s hungry like the wolf

    That’s a Duran Duran reference. You know, because his full name’s Rigoberto Uran Uran… Don’t scrutinise it. It doesn’t make sense. It’s enough to know that the Columbian rider won the time trial and therefore stripped Cadel Evans of his pink jersey, donning it himself instead (figuratively speaking). Where things stand Let’s simplify this. The…

  • Stage eight was too difficult for Diego Ulissi

    His words, not mine. I wouldn’t dream of describing it that way being as he won. A fast finisher, Ulissi is an even better climber than I thought he was, for this was a proper mountain stage. It was officially classed as ‘medium mountains’ but this was the day when the Giro reverted to type.…

  • Cadel Evans stays upright

    A weird, intriguing, but ultimately unsatisfying stage. Crashes late on separated the bunch, leading to significant time gaps and abandons. Half the peloton decking it isn’t the way you want to see the general classification take shape really. Broken bones It was nasty stuff. Moving at pace in the wet, merely touching the brakes appeared…

  • The corrupted logic of the breakaway rider

    Jens Voigt got in the break on stage three of the Tour Down Under. “I picked today’s stage to break away because nobody else did, but I knew that it was close to impossible to go for the stage win.” But he did it anyway. That’s a key aspect of the near-universal appeal of the…

  • Vincenzo Nibali’s happiness (and the varied feelings of others)

    It would be wrong to say that Vincenzo Nibali would have been happy at the bottom of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo climb at the end of stage 20. He was about to face 20km of increasingly difficult uphill cycling and the weather near the top was about as pleasant as an old man’s scrotum.…

  • Vincenzo Nibali positively monsters the cronoscalata

    There’s a headline you wouldn’t get on most websites. If you want a clear picture, get yourself a cronoscalata. What did today’s cronoscalata reveal? It revealed Vincenzo Nibali, then a big gap and then everyone else. On a normal stage, two riders can finish simultaneously but in radically different states. One can be cycling within…

  • Cadel v Cav

    Apologies to the winner, Ramunas Navardauskas, but yesterday’s stage was a bit nothingy. There was a big break (not a Big Break – that would be unacceptable) and Navardauskas showed great strength to win from it, but nothing much happened in the general classification. That will almost certainly be the case again today, but we will…

  • The Schlecks aren’t dead but what of Cadel Evans?

    Cadel Evans won the 2011 Tour de France. Andy Schleck came second. Frank Schleck came third. That seems an awfully long time ago. None of these riders has had a particularly good time since and last weekend’s Criterium Internationale brought few signs that will be changing any time soon. The Schlecks Frank Schleck is currently…

  • Cadel Evans goes out the back door

    I’ve always liked the back door. You go out the front door and you’re probably on your way to work, but go out the back door and there’s a good chance you’re going for a nice sit in the garden. Maybe there’s a beer involved. I like riders exiting through the back door in cycling…