Giro d'Italia 2018: Simon, Dumoulin and Froome - the eve of the Great War

After the final day of rest, the 2018 Giro d'Italia will enter an important race tonight, Tuesday 22-5, the personal race timepieces fro...

After the final day of rest, the 2018 Giro d'Italia will enter an important race tonight, Tuesday 22-5, the personal race timepieces from Trento to Rovereto (32.2km long), where the Department Roses may be "decided" with three heavyweights Simon Yates, Tom Dumoulin and Chris Froome ...

Simon: "Everyone is waiting for me to have a bad day!"

Currently holding Roses on the personal chart, Simon is naturally aware of how heavy the pressure on his shoulders, he is also the "target" for the remaining "heroes". Simon is aware that he is likely to lose some "time" in the 16th race - the personal race will take place tonight and if that happens, he will "groom" merits at the mountain passes (up to 3 mountain passes and a common hill route) before arriving in Rome.

Simon admits: "Everyone is waiting for me to go through a bad day. The second week of the Giro is especially difficult, regardless of whether you are in the position of eagles or not. This is the toughest week in any Grand Tour tournament in the field of cycling. "

Simon has been in a position he has never seen in the past - never reaching this level in the Grand Tour at the Grand Tour - despite finishing 6th in the Vuelta a España in 2016 and the Tour de France 2017 (he also won the best young Caucasian white Jacket at the Grand Tour in France last year). However, the 25-year-old Bury (a small town in the Greater Manchester area) proved to be quite realistic at the moment of the dominant moment with a gap of up to 2 minutes 11 seconds compared to the man. Ranked at No. 2 as Dumoulin.

"I am very relaxed, feeling very well. If I blow it all up and explode in this last week, or lose five minutes in the race tomorrow, I'll be fine, considering what I've done. Up to this point. If I can not win, then OK, I will not sleep, "Simon said.

Looking forward to the personal race tonight, Simon continues: "I will do my best. I was expecting myself to lose time. That is the reason at the last race, the pass race nú, I play very fierce to try to accumulate achievements. Tom is the biggest rival, and the rest is pretty sloppy in the individual race hours. In my opinion, I'm the weakest competitor in terms of personal race time, considering competitors are competing on the individual roster, so I've prepared myself for the short-cut. . I knew that, even before the race. "

Dumoulin: "Something special happened"

Quietly voiced since Rohan Dennis "snatched up" the Pink Dress from the second race, Dumoulin was waiting for an event, a miracle, or even a burst of effort from himself. In order to successfully defend the Giro d'Italia.

Tom's hopes are now on the personal stage tonight, as this is his forte. It's exactly the same timepiece - the race to open the ring around the ancient city of Jerusalem earlier this month - Dumoulin has become a racehorse to keep the Roses from the 2017 race "crossed" to 2018.

"The Giro 2018 has not been decided until the final race around Rome," Dumoulin said. Anything can happen. The case will now also be very special if something goes wrong so I can get a rose and wear it to Rome. But strange things always happen in the past in the third week of the Grand Tour. Therefore, I still try to keep my hope. "

In last year's Giro, Tom won mostly by individual races. First, he won the Pink Dress after the 10th race with a speedier finish than the second runner up to 49 seconds. Dumoulin kept the Roses until the 18th race, before losing it to Nairo Quintana, but after only two races - the final race was a timed race from Monza to Milan - Tom had "reclaimed. "The pink rose for the second time in a row (losing 15 seconds to Jos van Emden but more than ten seconds to the competition), which will be something Dumoulin has to take advantage of tonight.

"Timed individual races, even if it's not on a flat and high-speed track, not 100% of my favorite track, I'm happy too. to play. If you go through the races like the past few days, with the wind blowing from the bottom, there is always a limit that you can not run faster, the difference in time will not be too big. Simon will have to play badly to lose the pink in my hands after this race.

Froome: "I'm ready to do my best"

Froome of the mighty Sky Racing team is one of the candidates who can reverse the situation after the individual race tonight. Despite being the biggest loser (losing at No. 7, losing to Simon ... 4 min 52 sec), Froome is determined to fight Simon and especially Dumoulin.

"If I shorten anything with Tom I would be very happy. He is the world champion of individual racing timers. I do not even dare expect anything in the personal race, but let's wait and see. I will steal all that I have and of course not wait for anything easy in the rest of this year Giro. At this point, Giro 2018 is a race too brutal but also bring a glamorous. The distance is huge, especially with the way Simon is doing. At this point, he proves no weaknesses and seems to be racing even harder. But I still concentrate to paint Roses. I will never give up, "Froome tried to be optimistic, even though he knew that it was only" optimistic ".

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