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Possibly. I hope it worked like that. I’d love to hear some more from inside the peloton (not the secret pro mind) Froome is still, as I understood, regarded as the freak that keeps on freaking.
strongest rider in the final week winning the race, as Nibali demonstrated two years ago.
Ah yes. Nibali’s win was purely his own forte, had nothing to do with Kruijswijk crashing of course
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Nibali’s come back was pretty significant though, smashed it the third week.
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Ah yes. Nibali’s win was purely his own forte, had nothing to do with Kruijswijk crashing of course
It had a lot to do with it. But Kruijswijk was in difficulty before he crashed, and you could argue he crashed because he was pushing too hard to stay with Nibali.
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He didn't lose eight minutes on a single stage, then wipe the floor with the rest of the field the next day though, did he?
He crashed on the morning of the opening stage, and clearly suffered from the effects of that crash for the opening few stages. But at Etna, he showed his underlying form was good, only to fall on the same side again a couple of days later and lose another minute the day after. He then recovered in the second week, enough to be able to win the stage on the Zoncolan, but probably went too deep as he suffered a bit the next day, losing another minute or so. But then, in the final week, when you have to be on top of your game, he was, whereas others either stumbled, i.e. Yates and Pinot, or were knackered, Pozzovivo and Dumoulin.
It was an incredible comeback, but the nature of the Giro lends itself to the strongest rider in the final week winning the race, as Nibali demonstrated two years ago.