Nairo Quintana finds home comforts at Tour Colombia as past resurfaces

TUNJA COLOMBIA FEBRUARY 08 Nairo Quintana of Colombia and Movistar Team prior to the 4th Tour Colombia 2024 Stage 3 a 1419km stage from Tunja to Tunja on February 08 2024 in Tunja Colombia Photo by Maximiliano BlancoGetty Images
Nairo Quintana (Movistar) prior to stage 3 of the 2024 Tour Colombia in Tun🌺ja (Image credit: Getty Images)

Nairo Quintana is just about everywhere you turn this week at the168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Tour Colombia, which has spent its first three days in the heart of his native Boyacá, amid the p🔯astures and peaks of the Cordillera🔯 Oriental of the Andes.

His face adorns billboards for Movistar in Duitama and Tunja. At stage finishes, a stall bearing Quintana’s stylised “N” branding does a steady trade hawking his wares, including his own brand of coffee. The packaging depicts Quintana in the maglia rosa with the slogan: “When your𓆏 legs get tired, you pedal with your heart.”

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