The Giro d’Italia is not a time trial, but there have been such hard-fought finals, from Merckx to Dumoulin. Before the time trial in Verona, there is still a chance that the ranking will change
That time that Deborah Compagnoni had given 98 cents to the second in the first heat of the giant from Park City, Utah. In skiing 98 cents are an eternity, and it is said that Giorgio D’Urbano, the national team coach, had asked the Italian champion to go down to the second without taking too many risks. Also because the snow was hard, there was too much mist, and too many had already rolled over on the central wall. It would be like asking Mathieu Van der Poel to stay calm in the middle of the group because there are two first-class GPMs and he’s not a climber: useless effort, wasted breath, he’s Van der Poel and he does what his instinct tells him to he.