The end of the road is in sight now for Robert Gesink, as the veteran Dutch allrounder and widely respected domestique heads into the final six days of his career at the Vuelta a España.
But while it’s purely coincidence that it will be Madrid where he turns his last pedal strokes in a road race, it somehow also feels appropriate that fate has decided it’s the Spanish capital where the curtain finally falls on his time in the peloton.
