Tag: Matteo Trentin
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Matteo Trentin as if from nowhere
Matteo Trentin won another for the breakaway. It was an odd one though. Worth watching. For the last quite-a-few kilometres, stage 18 seemed certain to be a mano-e-mano duel between two Italians (mano nella mano?) – Moreno Moser and Trentin’s team-mate, Gianluca Brambilla (who we already know from earlier in the race). The day’s break…
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Peter Sagan is getting really rather annoyed
Matteo Trentin is a rider so anonymous that I’d actually forgotten that he won a stage of the Tour last year, even though I wrote about it at the time. If you watch a lot of cycling, you’ll know his name, but you’d never have him down for the win. He’s one of Mark Cavendish’s…
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Matteo Trentin wins one for the breakaway
Riders are part of teams, but unofficial alliances form on the road and the most obvious of these is the breakaway. I like to think of the breakaway as being a team in its own right – even if it’s one where in-fighting becomes torrid as the finishing line approaches. Matteo Trentin racked up what…