Tag: Ilnur Zakarin
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Everyone goes past Nairo Quintana
Many have wondered when we might finally get a devastating Nairo Quintana attack in the mountains. The answer, you’d assume on today’s evidence, is never. The not famously selfless Alejandro Valverde will be livid. Just 18 seconds behind his team-mate at the start of the day, he launched a ‘softening up’ attack on the final…
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Another Giro stage, another win for the break
Looks like I didn’t click ‘publish’ on this piece. Pretend it’s yesterday… The way it’s supposed to work is that a bunch of riders form the break early in the day and then the peloton laughs about their foolhardiness for a few hours before reeling them in pretty much whenever it feels like. Only it…