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Greg Van Avermaet exploits curt climbs, cobbles and crash avoidance | The 2018 Tour de France week one recap

July 16, 2018 · by Alex · in Tour de France

Yellow jersey contenders Green jersey contenders Week one recap Week two recap Final week recap Week one is best divided into the green story and the yellow story. Let’s deal with the green story first…

Greg Van Avermaet is King of Spring

April 10, 2017 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

If you’re accustomed to the cautious watchfulness of the Tour de France, the relentless violence of Paris-Roubaix can be a bit of an eye-opener. In July, commentators can spend three weeks discussing which mountain stage…

Greg Van Avermaet cobbles together a decent start to the spring

March 26, 2017 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

Welcome to the next exciting instalment of Greg Van Avermaet’s Fighting Talk. After winning E3 Harelbeke on Friday, the Olympic champion was effusive, offering, “I’m happy things are not so bad,” as his verdict on…

Michal Kwiatkowski’s back!

March 4, 2017 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

As in ‘returned’. He hasn’t got ankylosing spondylitis or anything. Michal Kwiatkowski hasn’t had a spectacularly successful time at Team Sky thus far. In 2014, at what was then Omega Pharma-Quick Step, he won Strade…

Greg Van Avermaet’s only the Olympic champion

August 6, 2016 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

At the start of this year, you’d have had Greg Van Avermaet down as a nailed-on certainty for an Olympic silver medal. Or maybe fourth, actually – that’s the Olympic version of just missing out….

Steve Cummings’ wins are better than everyone else’s

July 8, 2016 · by Alex · in Tour de France

They are. They just are. I don’t need to justify that statement. It’s just manifestly true. Steve Cummings’ Tour de France stage win last year when he soared past Thibaut Pinot and Romain Bardet as…

Vincenzo Nibali, Mr Popular, cheers up the peloton by losing a load of time

July 6, 2016 · by Alex · in Tour de France

Vincenzo Nibali is, by many accounts, not the most popular rider in the peloton. It’s the general air of thinking he’s somehow better than everyone else that people seem to object to. Maybe he’s misunderstood….

The latest on Greg Van Avermaet and his trident

March 16, 2016 · by Alex · in Stage races

After winning Tirreno-Adriatico, Greg Van Avermaet also did what looked like a guitar-playing mime with The Sea Master Trophy. If that is indeed what that was meant to be then Greg Van Avermaet has almost…

Born winner Greg Van Avermaet wins Tirreno-Adriatico

March 15, 2016 · by Alex · in Stage races

That Greg Van Avermaet, eh? He just can’t stop winning. Born winner. Always said so. Sticking with his new ploy of pitting himself against the even bigger bridesmaid that is Peter Sagan, Van Avermaet pipped…

Greg Van Avermaet has found a way to win bike races

February 28, 2016 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

We’ve been here before. Greg Van Avermaet has found a way to win bike races. By ensuring that his main rival at the finish is Peter Sagan, he raises the distinct possibility that he might…

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