Tag: Rui Costa
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Yellow jersey contenders in 2014
Who’s going to win this year’s Tour de France? Probably one of these guys and most likely one of the first two. But plenty can happen over the course of a Grand Tour. Just think what you were doing three weeks ago. Okay, it was probably much the same, but you almost certainly aren’t operating…
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Apparently Rui Costa always wins the Tour de Suisse
The Tour de Suisse is not the easiest race to follow. With two time trials before any of the proper mountain stages, you can’t be totally sure who’s really in contention until it’s basically over. After winning the stage seven time trial, Tony Martin led Tom Dumoulin by 28 seconds and Rui Costa by over…
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Rui Costa is climbing something
In my World Championships road race preview, I listed a load of major contenders before concluding it would probably be one of the other riders who won. Never let it be said that you don’t get accurate predictions on this website. Rui Costa is a very strong young rider, capable of winning Grand Tour stages…
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Rui Costa shows even more fight
Rui Costa took a second win of this year’s Tour on stage 19 in much the same style as he’d won his first. He got in the break and eventually left everyone behind, cycling alone for the final 60-odd kilometres. 38-year-old Andreas Kloden came second which is probably as close as we’ll get to a…
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Rui Costa records a real win
Every stage is important in the Tour de France, even if it doesn’t affect the overall race. Rui Costa won stage 16 after spending the day in the break and many would argue it was a more significant victory than his two Tour de Suisse titles. I would be one of those people. In the…
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A really rather poor review of the Tour de Suisse
I’ll be honest, I didn’t particularly follow this race and this neglect has been somewhat compounded by the fact that it was won by a rider I don’t know particularly well. Who won? Rui Costa. He won last year as well. Will he do well in the Tour de France? Dunno. He finished 18th last…