Giro D'Italia 2016

Posted on Mon 5th, October 2015

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bashthebox

You've mostly got to be a bit of a dick to win I think. It's fairly rare for any winner in any sport to not have that steely determination that can sometimes slip into outright dickishness. If you're prepared to descend a mountain so fast that a mistake will risk your life, then occasionally you'll do other things which wind people up. And sometimes you'll get it catastrophically wrong, and get caught on camera taking a gigantic slingshot off a team car.
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Smallfurry

Nibbles had a nightmare on the mountain TT. Not sure I consider him Lucky.

I havent seen the Whole of every stage. But I would say a combination of better endurance/recovery and far more GC Depth in his team made the difference over Chaves.

I watched the 2015 stage 20 while on the turbo yesterday. Astana really turned the screw on Contrador. I can only imagine they'd been doing the same to Chaves before nibbles attacked.

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