Vai Levi! Vai Lance!
We’ve become cycling fans over the last few years, so the chance to see one of the big classic races while in Europe was on our “To Do” list. It just so happened that our path crossed the Giro d’Italia in the Cinque Terre region in northern Italy.
For those who have never heard of it, the Giro is a 3 week race around Italy (like their version of the Tour de France). However, the fans in Italy are more intense and the Italian riders always seem to pull out incredible victories every time. We spent a sunny day near the finish line of a stage in beautiful Riomaggiore. It was a time trial stage which meant we got to seem each rider go by individually. All of our favorite big names in cycling were there – Basso, Sastre, Menchov, DiLuca (in the Maglia Rosa!), Leipheimer, Cavendish, and of course, Lance Armstrong, back from retirement. Here he is heading to the uphill finish:
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