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Diego Ulissi loves the rumples
You did of course commit Diego Ulissi’s name to memory after he won stage four. Just as well really being as he won stage 11 as well. The Italian has now won 16 races in his home country since 2012 and none anywhere else. Maybe the distance is finally starting to tell in this Giro.…
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Some young lad called Giulio Ciccone wins a stage of the Giro – no idea who he is
Stage 10 didn’t prove quite as messy as I’d hoped. The peloton did indeed split into small groups as predicted, but one of those small groups comprised pretty much all of the favourites. This meant that while there were a lot of meaningless time gaps, there weren’t all that many that mattered. The stage win…
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Primoz Roglic doesn’t need computers (or water)
A time trial is, hardly unsurprisingly, a story of time. Tactics and team-mates become irrelevant. The clock is all. At least that’s normally the case. In Chianti country on stage nine, the weather also played a part. Tom Dumoulin’s verdict was: “It was shit, I had no chance and I didn’t take any risks.” What…
