Geraint Thomas’s Giro d’Italia challenge crumbled as he wilted on the steep slopes of Monte Lussari in north-east Italy, allowing his closest challenger, Primoz Roglic, to move into the race leader’sIn a nail-biting climax to the three-week race, the 18.6km individual time trial finally revealed just how strong Roglic, of the Jumbo-Visma team, truly is. He survived a disastrous moment midway through the stage when he slipped his chain on the steepest gradients.
“I could feel my legs going a kilometre and a half from the top of the climb,” he said. “I don’t want to sound like I’m making excuses but I just didn’t feel like I had that real ‘grunt’.” “Primoz deserves that,” Thomas said. “He had a mechanical as well, and he still put 40 seconds into me, so chapeau to him.
Both riders has started the stage with a great deal at stake. Thomas, now 37, knew this could potentially be his last chance to win the Giro, a race in which he has often been beset by bad luck. Thomas battled hard but looked increasingly heavy-legged and seemed unable to lift his climbing tempo. In some ways, there was a sense of deja vu.
Van der Duin was only caught inside the last few hundred metres after a big crash on the approach to town disrupted the chase and left Friday's stage winner Charlotte Kool on the ground. The catch of Van der Duin was the cue for Dygert to follow a leadout from Soraya Paladin and Deignan could follow but not pass the former world time trial champion, who claimed her first WorldTour win on the road, two-and-a-half years after her career-threatening crash at the 2020 World Championships.
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