WHAT ABOUT WARREN?
When Nairo Quintana flung his arms skywards at the summit of La Colmiane in Paris-Nice in the final WorldTour race before lockdown, it was the culmination of a series of sudden surprise developments in the Colombian’s career. Signing for a ProTeam like Arkéa was a curveball, given his status as a genuine Tour de France GC hope. Then Quintana’s dramatically successful start to the season - no fewer than five wins - abruptly and somewhat surprisingly reversed his decline.
To judge by those results, the Colombian’s adaptation to team surroundings as unfamiliar as Arkéa after eight years at Movistar was clearly a very smooth one. But that renewed lease of sporting life for Quintana also raised a question: what about Warren Barguil? How was Barguil, by no means as successful a climber as Quintana but definitely one of the most talented in the world, going to fit in the
