A month ago, Afonso Eulálio was preparing to offer his support services to his Bahrain-Victorious teammates and expecting to cruise through the stage 10 time trial that kicks off the second week of racing at the Giro d’Italia on Tuesday.
But a head-turning opening week of racing means that he is now fighting with everything he has to stay in the maglia rosa, despite the odds being stacked against him on parcours that he called ‘the worst TT’ for riders like himself.
“Today has been quite busy. We started preparing all the things for the TT bike: the helmet and the suit. My plan one month ago was probably that the TT would be a rest day, but now we need to go all in for it,” Eulálio said in a press conference held on Monday, the second rest day of the three-week Grand Tour.
Eulálio expects there to be wind off the coast and for it to be perfectly suited to specialists like Filippo Ganna (Netcompany Ineos) and that Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), who is sitting in second overall at 2:24 behind him in the GC…
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