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Early deficit ‘doesn’t change’ Roglic and Jumbo-Visma’s approach to Giro d’Italia

Early deficit ‘doesn’t change’ Roglic and Jumbo-Visma’s approach to Giro d’Italia


Addy Engels must have spent most of the countdown to the Giro d’Italia phoning up his riders and asking them to change their plans for May. A combination of COVID-19 and crashes meant that Jumbo-Visma had to substitute no fewer than four of their line-up for the corsa rosa in the four days before the race started.

“I never experienced it myself and to be honest, I never experienced it with any other team, as far as I can remember,” said Engels, a sports director for Jumbo-Visma, in Teramo on Sunday morning. “That was a novelty for me, and one I hope I never have to repeat. But there’s no guarantee. Many people might say we’ve already had our portion of bad luck. Statistically, yes, but there’s no guarantee.”

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