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Vincenzo Nibali pays tribute to the late Lieuwe Westra

Vincenzo Nibali pays tribute to the late Lieuwe Westra


Vincenzo Nibali has paid tribute to his late teammate Lieuwe Westra, who died on Sunday at the age of 40. Westra was a part of Nibali’s guard on the 2014 Tour de France, most notably shepherding him across the cobbles on the race-defining stage to Arenberg in the opening week.

“Lieuwe was a great lad, he lived for the bike,” Nibali wrote in a column in Monday’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport (opens in new tab)

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