Giro d’Italia 2019 Stage 18: will-they-won’t-they-will-they?
A sprint stage, after what seems like several weeks of mountains, requires a re-focus. We watch, puzzled, as this longContinue Reading
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Giro d’Italia 2019 Stage 17: the Anglo-Saxon Aru
The 2019 Giro d’Italia might be remembered, among other things, as the race which brought Hugh Carthy to the attentionContinue Reading
Giro d’Italia 2019 Stage 16: Vincenzo Nibali and the inconvenient Ecuadorian
For stage sixteen, we got full-Giro. There was a masochistic mountain, cruel weather, riders shedding time, Italians gaining it…it wasContinue Reading
Giro d’Italia 2019 Stage 15: Nibali, by force of personality
Lombardy, with it’s history-laden hills and sinuous descents, is Vincenzo Nibali territory. Not by birth – he’s Sicilian – butContinue Reading
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