In the latest How the hell … Journal Velo poses a question that a lot of us are asking ourselves (particularly here in VeloVoices Towers) and which should really put the cat amongst the pigeons of our readers. He puts the pantomime villain of racing under the microscope to ask: How the hell has Alejandro Valverde grown on me?
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Tirreno-Adriatico was sometimes chaotic, sometimes cathartic but always competitive. Sunweb’s GC ambitions were wiped out in crashes, Marcel Kittel got his first win for Katusha and tributes were paid to Michele Scarponi. Sky’s Michal Kwiatkowski won, almost by stealth, Damiano Caruso of BMC was second, also almost by stealth, and Geraint Thomas of Sky came third, despite suffering his typical Italy-induced bad luck.