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The 2015 Vuelta a Espana is now on its second week, and being the poor sibling of its more prestigious siblings, the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia, its the sort of last a last chance saloon to redeem the status of a superstar for the year, especially if a superstar (Vincenzo Nibali, e.g.) had nothing to show for this year.

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It was an amazing tale of two riders, one that started out so fast and lost a bit of mojo near the end, and the other rider who started slow, made a few mistakes but got stronger in the end.

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Back when I had an office in Makati, I rode my bike to and from work on my car’s “coding” days.

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Traditionally, pink is a color associated with sensitivity, tenderness, sweetness, the feminine, and the romantic.But for me, the color is associated with pain, suffering and courage to rise above it all.

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The 2014 Vuelta a España consist of  21 stages, yet, on the eve of stage 20, it was still touch and go at least to the overall leadership, going into the final stage, a 9.7km individual time trial.

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This year is not a good year for the contenders of the Grand Tours. 2013 Vuelta a España Champion Chris Horner was hit by a car during training.

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Not a lot of cycling fans enjoyed the Tour de France the moment race favorite Brit Chris Froome got off his Pinarello during stage 5 as a result of (what was to be revealed later) a broken wrist.

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With the results of the final stage unlikely to change the final overall and other classifications, I have to admit that this is the strangest of all Tour de France’s that I have watched.

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Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali stamped his dominance on the Tour de France by winning the 10th stage in the Vosges mountains on Monday – shortly after his biggest rival for the title, two-time champion Alberto Contador, crashed out due to injury.

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Stage 5 was either a classic or a carnage, depending on your view. It was a stage that was not suited for a grand tour rider but a specialist like Fabian Cancellara or a Tom Boonen.

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It was an amazing tale of two riders, one that started out so fast and lost a bit of mojo near the end, and the other rider who started slow, made a few mistakes but got stronger in the end.

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The 2014 Vuelta a España consist of  21 stages, yet, on the eve of stage 20, it was still touch and go at least to the overall leadership, going into the final stage, a 9.7km individual time trial.

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With the results of the final stage unlikely to change the final overall and other classifications, I have to admit that this is the strangest of all Tour de France’s that I have watched.

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