Yates’s Giro dreams left in tatters
May 19, 2022
3 minutes
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The final few hundred metres of tarmac on the Blockhaus climb are cracked, broken and scarred, the unforgiving weather and wear taking its toll. But it was the cracks at the foot of the mountain that would prove decisive for Simon Yates’s Giro d’Italia GC hopes.
The much-reduced peloton had only just started to ascend the famous Italian climb on stage nine when the BikeExchange-Jayco leader drifted off the back of the group. He fought valiantly to start with but as the GC favourites started
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