Giro Ditalia

With this sixteenth stage, the third and last week of the Giro begins. Between the favorites, the gaps are far from sufficient to be certain of the final classification. …

It is a strong man who will win in Cogne. After the crazy stage of the day before, the riders’ bodies will be seriously tested again with this 15th stage of the Giro. Before a final rest day, the riders will have to reach Cogne, and to do so, they…

For six days, the participants of the 105th Giro d’Italia gave a lot of themselves while making the followers of the mythical race dream. The riders are enjoying a rest day, there is the opportunity to look back on the events of this last week on the Italian Grand Tour. Stage 4: Etna …

Interview with Stefano Garzelli, former winner of Il Giro d’Italia. As part of an ongoing collaboration with the website www.gregarioscc.com, I have been carrying out a series of interviews with prominent people involved in the cycling community in the Valencia Region. The article below is an English version of the original Spanish text which was published on 07/03/22, which you can read here: entrevista con Stefano Garzelli.

After his sensational Tour de France win in 2019 I couldn’t imagine anyone else getting close to Egan Bernal, the diminutive Colombian climber, for the next few years, such was the depth and manner of his victory. He was young, only 22 at the time, and he surely had the…

Sylvan Adams think we shouldn’t mix sport with politics. We know this because the billionaire owner of WorldTour cycling team, Israel Startup Nation, and the individual most responsible for delivering the Giro d’Italia to Jerusalem three years ago, said so in an interview, a little longer ago than that. That…

Last year (here) we had fun finding similarities between cyclists at the last Tour de France. The 2021 Giro d’Italia at the moment doesn’t need any further animation, but since they say it’s the tour of couples, we decided to apply the フュージョン Fyūjon effect, which is nothing more than…

Maybe I should re-title Part 2 to, “What happens when a Covid-positive cyclist rides in a group, without masks and closer than six feet?” Skeptical readers of Part 1, the Tour de France blog post, can rightfully point out what I’ll call the Russian Roulette Fallacy. One can make a…

This past Winter, just before COVID-19 had exploded and spread like an atomic cloud in the USA, Mayumi and I met my parents for about two weeks of travel in California. Greeted to blue skies everyday, we spent our time with them enjoying walks along the beach, a taste of…