This week, the pro peloton heads for Colombia where they are given a Beatlesque welcome. We also have some unsavoury rumours about Oleg Tinkov and a £20m offer – oh what crazy Tweets of the Week that would bring if it came true. And of course the gruppetto filled with warm and wonderful cycling tweets.
We’ve gone from Australia to Argentina – and it’s still really really hot. But we have some faces in the peloton that we’ve not seen for a while – Petr Vakoc, back from a broken back (!) and Mark Cavendish, hopefully recovered from the Epstein-Barr virus that kept him out of 2018 season. We, of course, have the usual irreverent tweets and observations from the best of procycling Twitter …
The 2015 Tour of Britain was really a tale of four Sky riders: two current, two former. Wout Poels and Edvald Boasson Hagen duked it out for overall victory for most of the week, with Boasson Hagen emerging triumphant. Meanwhile Elia Viviani won three times as Mark Cavendish failed to add to his ten career victories in this race.
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