In-form former dual Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar remains very much the man to beat in the Giro d'Italia
Eddie Dunbar in action during last year's Giro d'Italia. 'It’s a three-week race and so you have to focus on your own team and your own capabilities and see where that takes you.' Photograph: Stuart Franklin/Getty Images
Dunbar’s participation last year was his first chance to lead a team in one of cycling’s three-week Grand Tours. The Team Jayco AlUla rider climbed with the best and was sitting a superb fourth overall with three days to go. Sitting 45th overall with one stage remaining, he and his team decided he would withdraw in order to give him an extra rest day before the Giro.
This year’s Giro d’Italia totals 3,400 kilometres en route to Rome and contains plenty of the climbing stages that Dunbar relishes. Saturday’s opener is a punchy undulating race to Turin which could open gaps in the field; Sunday’s race to the Santuario di Oropa is harder again, with the first summit finish of the race.
One rider who won’t be short of swagger is Tadej Pogačar. Winner of the Tour de France in 2020 and 2021, he finished second overall in the same race in the past two years but looks entirely back to his best this season.
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