El adiós de Nibali, uno de los siete con las tres grandes
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Astana Sport News
Vincenzo Nibali: Giro d’Italia and cycling legend - and, sadly, the Shark who lost his bite
The writing has been on the wall for a while. Almost three years since his last major win – the same year he finished runner-up in the 2019 Giro d’Italia – Vincenzo Nibali has been riding on borrowed time for a few seasons now.
‘My time has come’ – Vincenzo Nibali will not ride Giro d’Italia again as retirement plans revealed
Vincenzo Nibali (Astana Qazaqstan) admits this will be his final Giro d’Italia as he revealed his plans to retire at the end of the season. The two-time champion has wowed cycling fans with ambitious and punchy moves throughout his career, which have propelled him to seven stage wins at his home Grand Tour. Ad/> While he has enjoyed immense success in Italy, his crowning achievement came at the 2014 Tour de France when he won the yellow jersey.
Juan Pedro Lopez comes of age in the Giro d'Italia on day namesake Miguel Angel Lopez hits fresh low
It looked rather ominous: just a few kilometres into the first summit finish of the Giro and Miguel Angel Lopez was already off the back of the peloton. The Colombian was in deep discussion with his Astana directeur sportif and alongside his compatriot and team-mate Harold Tejeda.
‘The Shark is drowning!’ – Vincenzo Nibali, Tom Dumoulin crumble on Etna as Giro d’Italia explodes into life
Vincenzo Nibali and Tom Dumoulin’s hopes of winning the Giro d’Italia again are already in tatters after the pair cracked on Mount Etna. The duo were two of three former winners in the field, alongside Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers) who led home the GC favourites on Stage 4. Ad/> Nibali (Astana Qazaqstan) leaked over two minutes on Carapaz – and 4’52” on stage winner Lennard Kamna (Bora-Hansgrohe) – with Dumoulin faring even worse, surrendering over six minutes to the pre-race favourites.
Giro d'Italia loses Miguel Angel Lopez as Mount Etna looms
Giro d'Italia lost one of its top contenders on Tuesday as Colombian climber Miguel Angel Lopez of Astana pulled up with the peloton headed towards a Mount Etna summit finish on stage 4. Lopez finished third on both the Vuelta a Espana and the Giro in 2018 and has stage wins on all three grand tours, and the 28-year-old's loss somewhat isolates team leader Vincenzo Nibali.
‘Sickener for Astana’ – Miguel Angel Lopez chalks up another DNF at Giro d’Italia on Stage 4
Miguel Angel Lopez’s miserable run at Grand Tours continued as he abandoned the Giro d’Italia on Stage 4. Lopez (Astana Qazaqstan) arrived in Italy on the back of DNFs at last year’s Tour de France and La Vuelta, the latter seeing him quit with just 20km remaining on the penultimate stage as his podium dreams unravelled. Ad/> “That’s a sickener for Astana,” said Rob Hatch on Eurosport commentary as news filtered through about Lopez’s latest withdrawal.