‘I can live up to it’: Giro d’Italia contender Michael Storer on his Destroyer nickname

Last month’s triumph in the Tour of the Alps has marked out the Australian as one of the leading GC contendersFew people get to choose their own nickname. And when a sportsperson is labelled as “The Destroyer”, it could go one of two ways. Michael Storer has carried the weighty moniker since Nico Denz coined the nickname during a celebratory dinner for one of the Australian cyclist’s two stage wins at the 2021 Vuelta a España.Former teammate Denz turned to his nati