Giro d’Italia stage 11 LIVE: Opportunity for the breakaway on punchy terrain

While there are some tough climbs on the menu today, they’re perhaps not quite hard enough to draw the GC contenders out into another fight. Instead, the main focus today will be on the breakaway, and what looks set to be a very intense contrast for the stage win.

Yesterday was one of the most significant GC sort outs of the race so far, with many of the top favourites finding themselves in a very different position than theory did 24 hours ago. Here’s what some of the top names had to say in reflection.

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