Giro D’Italia 2016: The Shark has pearly teeth
It was always going to be about the third week and that pair of stages in the Alps. With the race heading over the border into France and Steven Kruiswickj sitting pretty in pink, an open, aggressive – if somewhat unexceptional race – was coming to the boil nicely. Kruiswickj would be the first Dutch […]
Giro D’Italia 2016: Week 2 – “Age and Treachery”
“Age and treachery” said il Campianissimo Fausto Coppi “will overcome youth and skill.” Or, as P.J. O’Rourke put it “age and guile beat youth, innocence and a bad haircut.” Not in this Giro they don’t – because this week has been all about the young guns sticking it to the established stars of the peloton. […]
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May 2016 marks six years of girodilento. In that time this site has grown from a few views on posts about the cycling I was doing to around 10,000 visitors a month. The challenge has always been how I can I write more content that I believe people will want to read. In simple terms […]