Check it out - the new #Giro GC has been given a shake-up 🧐 @GeraintThomas86 and @taogeoghegan up to second and fourth respectively. Great to see @PavelSivakov crack the top 10 too 👏 Now, the rest day 🙌
"G and Tao have taken a big step forward" - INEOS DS confirms great sensations into pink jersey battle
CyclingSunday, 14 May 2023 at 22:00
Bittersweet taste for INEOS Grenadiers today in the long time trial of the Giro d'Italia. Geraint Thomas and Tao Geoghegan Hart were one and two seconds respectively behind winner Remco Evenepoel, coming excruciatingly close to what would be a very important win.
DS, Matteo Tosatto, had this to say after his riders' great stage: "Today I think G and especially Tao have taken a big step forward, one or two seconds are nothing, there is the anger for not getting the stage with G or Tao, but this gives continuity to both of them of the good sensations they have shown in the last days."
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He was asked directly about the superiority of his team with respect to the rest, making it clear that it is not that big a deal and that what they are looking for is to continue working with their heads on their shoulders: "The word superior doesn't appeal to me. We are a strong team as we showed in the Tour of the Alps. We have to be calm, quiet and study all the stages well."
Thomas and Hart now sit 45 and 50 seconds back on Evenepoel into the second week, second and fourth in the overall classification respectively. Alongside Primoz Roglic, the duo seem ready to battle deep into the mountains for the victory in the Giro.
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