A still-in-construction apartment complex loomed over the finishing straight of stage 4 of the Tour Colombia. "The best place to live in Zipaquirá, far from the chaos and congestion," read a billboard advertising the new units, yours for 24 million pesos.
On Friday afternoon, the chaos and congestion were happening directly underneath those half-built towers. A bike race of any kind will always draw a crowd in this corner of the Andes, but the whole of Egan Bernal's hometown seemed to have turned out to welcome him back, a heaving mass of humanity all along Carrera 15.
