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One Puerto Rican against the world
- Updated: August 6, 2016
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When Chris Froome, Alejandro Valverde, and Vincenzo Nibali turn the screws on Vista Chinesa, Brian Babilonia will not be there. He will fight and claw at the peloton’s whipping tail, and he will lose. But he is here, now, standing on Rio’s coast with the same Tyvek number on his back as all the rest. His bike is five years old, his wheels are unbranded, his entourage can be counted by a man with no hands at all. But he is here.
He’s here three hours early.
“I have to be early,” he says, grinning. “I don’t want to miss anything. I don’t want to miss any moments.”
The sun still sits low over the water off Copacabana beach, it’s light filtered red through an early morning haze. Froome woke up perhaps 30 minutes ago. The rest of Brian Babilonia’s competitors won’t show up for at least another hour. Babilonia can’t …
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