Jonas Vingegaard and his Visma–Lease a Bike teammates capped three weeks of domination of the Giro d’Italia by winning the last two fully competitive stages of the race in a manner that demonstrated what we’d expected from the start: no one else had a chance.
This year’s Giro d’Italia just keeps on giving drama and surprises. The latest bombshell shocked even the winner. It came on Thursday’s very lumpy stage 18, which everyone had conceded to points classification leader Jhonatan Narváez (UAE Team Emirates–XRG) because of the short but very…
Before the Giro d’Italia kicked off, the general consensus was that the only real suspense of the race would be wearing the Maglia Ciclamino, or purple jersey, as the winner of the points classification when the race ends on May 31 in Rome.
