Pino using insults to motivate Mosquera

It is said that a good manager knows both when and how to motivate his riders, which made Alvaro Pino’s scathing criticism of Ezequiel Mosquera following the finish of the Vuelta’s Cotobello stage hard to understand.

Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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