“It’s the day after the rest day,” said James Knox this morning. “A notorious day for having a bad day.” But didn’t Thomas De Gendt say on Sunday morning, “The day after the TT I am always a bit bad.” And don’t riders worry about first contact with the mountains, and the first day of rain, and the final week? There are so many days in stage races when it can all go wrong that we could simplify things by saying: it’s another day.
Even so, Knox continued, “I’m pretty confident we will this Maglia Rosa for the next couple of days at least, and then we’ll see how far we can take it.”