The return of Nairo Quintana is a reason to remember that this cyclist gave great cycling moments
You will remember the image in this article, Tour of 2013, Mont Ventoux, Nairo Quintana attacks first, then Froome catches him, who had just taken down Contador, and ends up surpassing him.
That day Nairo Quintana reached the top of the bare mountain and collapsedfell to the ground from the inhuman effort he had just carried out, broken and destroyed, cradled by his assistant.
Those days there was fever with Nairo, I don’t want to know what it was like in his country or on his continent, but I can imagine it.
They were days of sun and shine in the best race in the world in which he debuted as second, best youth, polka dot jersey and winner of a stage.
The combo…
In the heat of his “re” signing with Movistar I wanted to rescue five great moments from Nairo Quintana.
Among the best in Cuitu Negru
A makeshift road took the 2012 Vuelta past the summit of Pajares.
In the group of the best, Purito, Contador and Valverde would remain again with a silent Colombian who was there, at 22 years old, with the bosses of the race.
I remember that he dared to attack them, although it didn’t go well, he stayed there, at the height of the race, like days later in Fuente Dé, when he was part of the good cut that lifted Contador towards his second Vuelta.
Ecstasy at Le Semmoz
Not even twelve months had passed since Cuitu Negru, when Nairo Quintana was growing up in the eyes of the world in the middle of the Tour de France.
With Valverde eliminated in a few fans, Movistar was convinced that the Colombian was its best asset, and boy was it, putting Froome himself in trouble until the very epilogue in which he won in white, at the final summit of the Tour to sign his silver place.
Val Martello: Nairo Quintana attacks the Giro
You will remember that Stelvio, the snow, the neutralization and the screams of Gorka Izagirre covering Nairo in the middle of the storm.
Much was said about that descent from the Stelvio, but the most true thing was that in that race there was no one stronger than Nairo Quintana, not even the occasional leader Rigo Urán.
Nairo’s arrival in that refrigerator, alone, winning the stage, ending the Giro, is one of the most beautiful cycling days of the past decade.
Among the snow of Terminillo
Although Vuelta and Giro shine in their record, Nairo has a good group of one-week laps left among which stands out the Tirreno that sentenced in the middle of the snow of Terminillo.
In the same place that Lucho had won years before, the man from Boyacá gave a recital that was difficult to see due to the curtain of snow that accompanied his march, one of those spectacles that are forgotten.
The Liada of Formigal
One of Nair’s best qualities has been to always be attentive to any circumstance of the race.
There is also his great mastery of the fans and the fact that he has almost never been cut by one of them, that is when he did not start shooting himself.
In that Formigal stage of the 2016 Vuelta, Nairo was aware of Contador’s movement and without even realizing it, Froome had lost the Vuelta due to the enormous gap that had opened up for them.
And the news of this runner’s return cannot be anything, even if the last feat of his that we mention is from 2016, it does not mean that he continues to think that there is wood there to do things that continue to grow a unique legend.
2023-11-10 23:19:31
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