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  • Alberto Contador steals Tony Martin’s headlines

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    I think I’ve said this before, but the problem with being Tony Martin is that everyone expects you to win time trials, so when you do, it’s literally unremarkable. What’s newsworthy is when you lose. Tony Martin won the stage 10 time trial, so let’s move on. Over the handlebars The most dramatic moment of…

  • Winner Anacona lives up to his name

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    That’s ‘Winner Anacona,’ not ‘winner, Anacona’ – although on this occasion misuse of commas and capital letters doesn’t actually matter that much because Winner won and is therefore also a winner. Let’s just call him Anacona for clarity. Anacona, who was only a couple of minutes down on the general classification, got himself into the…

  • Eight pairs to watch in the 2014 Vuelta a Espana

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    There aren’t enough race previews binding riders together into twos. Let’s be honest, all the best things come in pairs. Also Twixes. The Chrises – Chris Horner and Chris Froome Horner won last year. Froome’s one of the big favourites to win this year. What more do you need to know? Horner’s age, maybe? He’s…

  • Nairo Quintana can cycle up a mountain

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    I suppose we knew that anyway, but the fact has been driven home in the last two days with Quintana proving himself the strongest Grand Tour rider in the race by some margin. Stage 19 There’s something very satisfying about a cronoscalata – an uphill time trial. It’s the bare bones of road cycling laid…

  • Nairo Quintana definitely did something

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    Prepare yourselves for enthusiastic-yet-vague coverage because I totally missed this stage and YET IT SOUNDS AMAZING. Nairo Quintana has definitely recovered. He appears to have smashed the Giro to smithereens, finishing 4m11s ahead of previous race leader, Rigoberto Uran. That time gap again – 4m11s. It was snowy. It was dangerous. There was a suggestion…

  • Nairo Quintana wins stage, runner-up spot, mountains competition and white jersey

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    What an excellent finish to the general classification. The final climb of the 2013 Tour saw the peloton whittled down to pretty much the top 10 riders and this then became the eventual podium – Chris Froome, Nairo Quintana and the better-late-than-never Joaquim Rodriguez. It was almost as if the top three riders were leading…

  • Chris Froome and Nairo Quintana on Mont Ventoux

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    On stage 15, Chris Froome won cycling. I don’t mean he won at cycling, as in winning a race. I mean that even if he doesn’t go on to win the Tour, he won the sport of cycling. The longest stage for 13 years, the 100th Tour de France, a stage finish atop Mont Ventoux,…