Nairo Quintana, a Colombian Reference in the High Mountain, Says Goodbye to Cycling
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With two titles in big laps and three podiums in the Tour de France, Nairo Quintana hung the bike on Saturday at the Giro del Emilia. His career paved the way for a generation of Colombian runners and consolidated it as one of the landmarks of the high mountain.
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destentor.nlNairo Quintana rode his final race on Saturday afternoon in the Giro dell’Emilia after sixteen years of cycling. Before the race, the peloton paid a beautiful tribute to the 36-year-old Colombian.
The Colombian climber, one of the best in history, will run his last race with the Movistar Team on Saturday, October 3rd at the Giro de Emilia and will leave the professionalism with 53 victories, among them a Giro and a Vuelta in addition to three podiums in the Tour
The race started off with a good downhill pace and was won by Davide Piganzoli, a competitor from Hungary, with a 4,700-meter long attack.
The cycling fired with emotion one of its great protagonists. Nairo Quintana finished 17 seasons as a professional during the Giro de Emilia, where he received a special tribute before taking the start of his last race.The Colombian, member of the Movistar Team, lived a moment loaded with symbolism along with the rest of the platoon.Before the start of the test, all the runners formed a corridor with their bikes to receive Quintana, who went thr…
Nairo Quintana has competed this Saturday at the Giro dell’Emilia his last career as a professional cyclist, putting an end to a 15-season career in the elite. Colombian, one of the great names of cycling in recent decades, closes a race in which he has added 53 victories, 42 of them [...] The post Nairo Quintana, a legend that is already part of the history of cycling first appeared on Movistar Team.
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