Vuelta Espana 2020 Stage 17: Roglic, by a whisker!
In a sense, when the riders crossed the line at the summit of la Covatilla, they flipped back from athletesContinue Reading
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Vuelta Espana 2020 Stage 16: Magnus Cort Neilsen is the least tired
Yesterday, a couple of sprinters – Philipsen and Ackerman – made it over the hills to contest a sprint. Today,Continue Reading
Vuelta Espana 2020 Stage 15: the hardest bastard in Spain
I see what the Vuelta bosses are doing in this final week. Rather than a succession of vertiginous mountain adventuresContinue Reading
Vuelta Espana 2020 Stage 13: the tremble-o-meter
For a short while today we obsessed over how quickly each rider could dismount one bike, mount another, clip in,Continue Reading
Vuelta Espana 2020 Stage 12: Hugh Carthy tames the Angliru
Everything you’ve heard about the Angliru is true; it’s a terrible climb. In a world of exaggeration and hyperbole itContinue Reading
Vuelta Espana 2020 Stage 11: fun on the Farrapona
Too tough to be fun. For both riders and viewers. Three first category climbs led us to a summit finishContinue Reading
Vuelta Espana 2020 Stage 9: largely quiet, and then suddenly very LOUD
The autonomous community of Castile and Leon is big, and empty. People, for some reason, don’t live here. As theContinue Reading
