PeaceAKKI, Giro d'Italia riders Vincenso Nibali, Cadel Evans and...

PeaceAKKI, Giro d'Italia riders Vincenso Nibali, Cadel Evans and Tour de france champ' Bradley Wiggins, who withdrew with chest infection last week, might have come to a different conclusion to your "step outside and see for yourself" assertion that it's getting warmer out there.

Surviving the coldest Giro in recent history — stage 19 was canceled due to snow and stage 20 to Tre Cime di Lavaredo was ridden in whiteout conditions — was not easy. Nibali passed several pitfalls to arrive on the podium in Brescia’s Piazza della Loggia as Giro king.

“The snowy day to Galibier and Tre Cime di Lavaredo was epic, it recalled another time,” he said.

It appears to me peace' that late Spring in Europe is just exactly what it used to be, [ back in the last ice age]