2021 season, Giro d'Italia, Grand Tours

Giro d’Italia 2021: Stage 3 – Taco! Taco! Taco! takes a tasty victory

May 10, 2021 Luke Leave a comment

Fan-favourite Taco van der Hoorn brought tears of joy and boisterous cheers of “Taco! Taco! Taco!” to the cycling world, taking a magnificent victory after attacking solo from the breakaway remnants in the finale. The victory was van der Hoorn’s first-ever grand tour stage, and Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Materiaux‘s premier victory this year in their WorldTour debut season. In the bunch sprint, Davide Cimolai (Israel Start-up Nation) stole second from Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe). Continue reading →

Vuelta a España

Vuelta stage 3: Horner enjoys his senior moment

August 26, 2013 kittyfondue Leave a comment

Stage 3: Vigo to Mirador de Lobeira/Vilagarcia de Arousa, 172.5km

The first few stages of a grand tour are supposed to ease the riders into the race, with fireworks provided by the sprinters. It is not supposed to have a peloton freak-out that results in the sprinters being dropped and the oldest rider in the peloton taking the stage win. But that’s what happened today. Continue reading →

Vuelta a España

Vuelta Stage 3 preview

August 26, 2013 kittyfondue Leave a comment

Stage 3: Vigo to Mirador de Lobeira/Vilagarcia de Arousa, 172.5km, flat

Today is flat all the way to the final few kilometres, when it turns into a nasty 5.7% cat 3 climb to the finish with sections of double-digit gradient. Obviously, the Vuelta organisers were having some fun with the sprinters when they described this stage as ‘flat’.

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