Alto Santo Toridio de Liebana (SPA): Froome increase his lead from Nibali by a few seconds, just 20″, but still earns and it’s a big sprint to the victory of the red shirt. Now there is only the fearsome stage of the Angliru on Saturday to separate him from his historic double Tour-Vuelta. Angliru, for those who did not know it is the Spanish climb twin with Mortirolo for its hardness. If the runners’ nights at Vuelta are upset by the climbs, Cannondale Drapac team athletes are tormented by the risk of team closure next year. A situation that is not easy to handle since one hundred people are working for the US team. […]

LOS MACHUCOS: After the time-trial that has further crowned Chris Froome’s dominant role, the 17th stage of #VueltaEspana, 180km long, will start from Villadiego to Los Machucos. There are 5 stages missing at the end but these 4 can be decisive. Once again is time for the “squalo dello stretto”, Vincenzo Nibali, to attack the British as his gap is now 1′: 58″. In today stage there are many potential winner, the most important of these is called Alberto Contador. The one from Madrid, being at his last Gran Tour in his career, does not want to spend next 5 days in anonymity. Everyone remembers his attacks to Purito Rodriguez, which allowed him to conquer his 3rd Vuelta in 2012. Vincenzo therefore can […]

These days a video of Chris Froome show that the British would have mounted a small engine inside his bicycle. The video can be found at this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=66&v=_UNHibTi1wA and within a few hours it has had hundreds of thousands of views that trigger the most disparate reactions. In fact, there are a couple of considerations that need to be made. The stretch in which the shot is taken is downhill and therefore it is normal for the athlete to take speed. At the second 26 of the same video it can be noticed that even a Cannondale knit runner moves in the same thrown spot and without pedaling. A runner like Froome who […]