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nairo Quintana

olombia finally has its first Tour de France winner, it just isn’t Nairo Quintana. That’s not a statement the crystal ball of cycling was predicting back in 2013, when the diminutive climber from Combíta, situated over 2,800 metres up in the Colombian clouds, exploded into the Tour and finished second overall, and also won the King of the Mountains jersey, on his debut. Back then, Quintana was the young prodigy of Colombian cycling. The talented wunderkind who looked set to

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