Remember when Nibali was chastised, earlier in his career, for being too impetuous. Not timing his attacks and needed to become more clinical if he was to be a Grand Tour threat. Not to say he wasn't before yesterday, but what I watched was a seasoned racer put his younger competitor ruthlessly to the sword.
Only to see him be labelled as a doper (admittedly more so on other social mediums than on here).
There was not a shred of evidence you could point to this Giro to say 'there, look, that's not normal!'. And in spite of Astana's past, their tactics in the last week were first class. Especially yesterday, with Kangert up the road for the coup de grâce.
Who knows what happens in the future, but for now it was a class recovery from a very accomplished and intelligent racer.
As for Chaves, what a classy fellow he is. No excuses. Sublime humility. World sports need more guys like him.
https://www.facebook.com/SBSCyclingCent ... 884253427/even if he didn't ride for Orica I'd say I've found my new GC rider to root for.