This year’s Italian Grand Tour is taking place from May 8—30. It will return six months after the last edition, which was pushed back in the calendar due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The riders will start in Turin and end in Milano.
Froome won the Triple Crown – Le Tour (2017), La Vuelta (2017), and the Giro (2018). The Team Sky’s embarrassment of riches resulted in another Briton winning the next big prize – Geraint Thomas winning Le Tour earlier this year.
Although Sunweb team’s champ Tom Dumoulin managed to maintain both the pink jersey and his overall lead of the Giro, despite countless attacks by Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida) and Thibaut Pinot (FDJ), the limelight belonged to Omar Fraile (Dimension Data). It’s his very first Grand Tour…
The issue is not entirely new to cycling fans. In 2015, organizers of the Flanders Diamond Tour in Belgium apologized for using bikini-clad podium girls at women’s race after one of the riders, Marijn de Vries, tweeted that the setup was an “utter disgrace”.…
