Match point? Tadej Pogačar looks to wrap up Giro d’Italia early on Prati di Tivo – stage 8 preview

There are still 2,400km between here and Rome, but it’s hard to shake off the feeling that Tadej Pogačar has already put this Giro d’Italia far beyond the reach of any of his rivals. At the very least, Pogačar’s inordinately dominant victory in the stage 7 time trial to Perugia leaves the race already on match point with more than two weeks still to go.

“It’s still a super long way to Rome and we didn’t start the climbing stages,” Pogačar said when he took a seat in the press conference truck on Friday evening. “Nothing is over yet.”