Tag: Esteban Chaves
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Will Simon Yates ever tire? | The third 2018 Giro d’Italia rest day wrap
2018 Giro d’Italia contenders The first rest day wrap The second rest day wrap The third rest day wrap Final week wrap It was a funny sort of week. The nondescript stages were the big stages, while the big stage was dramatic but ultimately somewhat misleading. An early start The week started in bizarre fashion…
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Autumn round-up: from Belgium to Qatar
I’ve rather permitted the season to peter out and for that I apologise. Last time I wrote about actual racing, Steve Cummings had won the Tour of Britain. What’s happened since then? Eneco Tour I rather like the Eneco Tour, but didn’t really get chance to follow it too closely this year. It’s rough and…
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Vincenzo Nibali’s horrific and shameful Giro d’Italia somehow ends in victory
After Vincenzo Nibali won stage 19, Esteban Chaves said: “It’s not easy to follow Nibali downhill. He’s crazy to do that, but I must be crazy too to follow him.” Descending is perhaps an underrated aspect of cycling. Grand Tour winners are always among the strongest climbers, but you don’t see the impact of a descent…
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Nibali or Kruijswijk – choose your story
Remember those Choose Your Own Adventure books where you’d have a choice to make at the end of every passage? “If you choose to drink the potion, turn to page 110. If you choose to throw the potion in the angry hippopotamus’s face, turn to page 83.” This is nothing like that. There are only…
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Steven Kruijswijk still infuriatingly insistent that I keep typing out his name
For the second day in a row, race leader Andrey Amador was dropped on a climb only to scorch down the descent and catch the men who left him. It would have been an exceptional recovery if that had been the end of the stage. Sadly for Amador, it wasn’t. By the end of the…
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Vincenzo Nibali – part man, part sidecar
The most interesting aspect of stage two for me was big Tom Dumoulin finishing second. It would be good to see a time triallist competing for Grand Tours again. It would bring a new dimension to the racing. I doubt it’ll happen this year, but consider this some sort of foreshadowing of things to come.…