Tag: Dan Moreno
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Joaquim Rodriguez, Alejandro Valverde and the relationship between their wheels
It’s not like I haven’t written about Dan Moreno and uphill finishes before. He went up the final climb like a cockroach up a wall – which is intended to be descriptive, rather than insulting – and secured a second stage win as well as the race lead. Thus far, Moreno’s been doing what his…
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Nicolas Roche just about leads the Vuelta
Nicolas Roche has actually got 17 seconds on Chris Horner in second place. It’s a reasonable buffer, but he was making faces like someone was tearing out clumps of pubic hair near the finish. Those 17 seconds might disappear in the blink of a watering eye. Roche came third. The good news for fans of…
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Dan Moreno and the uphill finish
Dan Moreno won stage four. That’s Dan Moreno, the Spanish cyclist who also won La Fleche Wallonne this year and not Dan Marino, literally the only American football player I can name – although I guess that should be obvious from the context really, what with this being a bike race and all. The stage…