Tag: Ion Izagirre

Tour de Suisse – Good but how good?

By MikeFranchetti on June 20, 2016June 10, 2017

Swiss cycling has a lot to be proud about. At nine stages long they have the longest home tour outside of the Grand siblings, another successful World Tour race in the Tour of Romandie, a handful of Grand Tour successes including back-to-back Tour de France wins from Ferdinand Kubler and Hugo Koblet, a famous podium sweep in the

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Previews and Reviews

Giro d’Italia 2015: The Big Preview

By MikeFranchetti on May 7, 2015June 14, 2016

The first Grand Tour of the season is finally among us. It’s easy to fall into the trap of saying the Giro d’Italia has the greatest history and the best climbs- something I do every May. By July, I’m absorbed with the madness of the Tour de France and I’m always staggered by the difficulty of the climbs in the Vuelta come September.

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