This has to be one of the best photos of the 2013 Tour: Nairo Quintana at the finish on the Ventoux. Nairo gives very little away when he climbs but as he crossed the line his head dropped and the lights went out. He later admitted having gone too early again. Before that, on the slopes of the Giant of Provence, he knew he was going to win. Then he was caught, then dropped, then he regained Froome’s wheel. Finally he was dropped a second time, towards the summit. There was no fighting back to Froome’s wheel, only the need to race on, as fast as possible.
His soigneur drapes a fresh long sleeve jersey on his shoulders, a bottle of pink spanish recovery fluid awaits. Nairo’s left hand lies open by his leg. His head hangs with exhaustion and disappointment. This soigneur has to do his magic now as Quintana has left it all on the Ventoux.
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*cough this is not news....since the year dot the spectators have interferred. In early tdfs the french beat up Belgian Participants, in the Giros the Cogniscenti pushed Italian participants up hills. The Vuelta is the exception, it is not the supporters it is just all the spanish riders seeking to hamstring any non spaniard.....Let's not even talk about Robert Millars stolen Vuelta, it is still too painful!
The clowns are there, they will always be there, what I loved about this Tour is the number of spectator runners who were fucked over by their own....I saw this one when it happened at I spat my beer out and near pissed myself!
Beautiful...let them all police each other, it will be carnage!
Quintana discovered riding outside himself that the outside is still out there.
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