Giro d'Italia, Tour of California & Tour Of Norway | The Cycling Race News Show

It’s been one of the most action packed weeks of racing so far this season - the 2nd week of the Giro d’Italia was a belter, we had the men’s and women’s Tours of California, there’s controversy at the Tour of Norway with punches and fake crashes, there’s the Tour de l’Ain, the start of the Tour of Japan, the Grote prijs Marcel Kint, and the Ronde de l’Isard. We’d better get started….

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What a bonkers week it has been at the Giro d’Italia - Chris Froome looked completely out of the equation, until a win on the hardest climb in Europe, the Monte Zoncolan, only to then concede another minute and a half the following day.

Estevan Chaves had a ‘jours sans’ the day after the rest day, and because his legs were bad, everybody else had one of the hardest racing days of their life on stage 10, a stage won by the young man who continues his upward trajectory, Matej Mohoric.
Fabio Aru’s campaign has gone from bad to worse, he cracked on the Zoncolan and then completely detonated the following day, losing close to 20 minutes, it’ll be interesting to see if he even starts the time trial on Tuesday.

Tom Dumoulin has been his usual steady eddie - he’s basically consistency personified. He never cracks under pressure, he never puts himself in the red, he just rides the power he knows he can produce, and it’s incredibly effective.
Or at least it is when you aren’t up against Simon Yates. The 25 year old has shown absolutely no signs of cracking…..quite the opposite in fact. His results in the race so far have been quite incredible, almost Valverde like.

In fact, according to Cillian Kelly, it was indeed Valverde who was the last rider to be more consistent in finishing position at a Grand Tour - after Stage 14, Yates’ average finishing position had been 15.08, whilst at the same point in the 2016 Vuelta, Valverde’s was a quite staggering 11.85.

That, though, was before stage 15, which Yates won. That made it his third stage win of the race, and he became the third rider in history to win three stages of the Giro whilst wearing Pink - only Gilberto Simoni and the great Eddie Merckx have accomplished that feat previously. Thanks to Cillian again for that one.

So, as things stand on the final rest day, Yates has a 2m11s buffer over last year’s winner, Tom Dumoulin, ahead of tomorrow’s 34km individual time trial. Which basically means we are perfectly poised for an incredibly exciting final week - Dumoulin should be able to eat up most, if not all of that lead tomorrow, but then we have a trio of back to back mountain stages starting on Thursday.

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