10/5/15 12:46 AM

Some great eyeballs-out descending by Nibali off the last two climbs to win on his own, and on a partly damp road to boot. My wife was leaping out of her seat at how close he came to disaster on some of the corners. His closest shave was probably the one at just after the 21 minute point in this coverage on Youtube, the last bend off the final descent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVDGlcYm0dg

10/5/15 1:02 AM

Fearless! There was so many things I thought he was going to hit almost baking that turn like that to be sure... That is about as close to the edge as you can ride. And I don't mean the edge of the road, more like the edge of chance....