There was a big surprise on the final summit finish of this year’s Vuelta, with the ailing veteran Frank Schleck rolling back the years to take a gutsy breakway victory on the brutal Ermita de Alba. Further down the road, Joaquim Rodriguez stole two seconds from Fabio Aru to take the red jersey by the narrowest of margins, while Tom Dumoulin again kept himself in the running by admirably limiting his losses.
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Chris Froome got his 2014 campaign off to a winning start in Oman, defending his crown from last year. He won atop Green Mountain on stage five, opening up an unassailable advantage over nearest rivals Tejay van Garderen and Rigoberto Uran.
It’s part two, from N to Z, of our idiosyncratic, tongue-in-cheek look back at the 2013 season. Yesterday we went from Angliru to Married, today it’s Nocturnal to Zola! Continue reading