Tag: Romain Bardet
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Corks, Carapaz and constancy | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2022 Giro d’Italia
Recap of Stages 1-9 Recap of Stages 10-15 Recap of Stages 16-21 To quickly take stock of where we were at the start of the week, Juan Pedro Lopez was very obviously temporarily in the pink jersey. Based on how things had gone on the Blockhaus climb, five of the six riders stacked up immediately…
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Stage 18: Warren Barguil really is King of the Mountains
The top three riders in this year’s Tour de France refused to be separated by mountains. Technically, Rigoberto Uran finished two seconds behind Romain Bardet and Chris Froome atop the Izoard, but that was just a momentary parting rather than separation in a meaningful sense. Not that they rode the stage arm-in-arm or anything. Bardet…
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Stage 12: Everyone beats Chris Froome
Okay, not everybody, but it was an uncharacteristically limp performance from a man who so rarely relinquishes the yellow jersey midway through the race. His team were strong. Very strong. Unrivalled budget strong. But then it all rather dribbled away in the near-vertical final 200m. Mikel Landa led his team leader to the foot of…
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Romain Bardet stays upright – Chris Froome doesn’t
The only thing falling harder than the rain was the riders. Grand Tour cycling is athletically and mentally tough, but the possibility of crashing is an additional brutality that occasionally rises to unwelcome prominence. Chris Froome was one who fell, his front wheel apparently growing weary of traction. It would take too long to list…
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Romain Bardet sneaks into the top ten
That’s if it’s possible to sneak while simultaneously winning a stage. Which it isn’t. Particularly when you’re French and there’s four shitloads of your countryfolk screaming into your face as you bear down on the line. It was another win for the break, which contained about 30 riders early on but was down to about…