When Jai Hindley passed the 10.1 km split, he was 22 seconds slower than Tao Geoghegan Hart. But, even before then, what was happening was clear. Like Nairo Quintana in 2017, Jai still had 450m to go when his time ran out and his rival knew that he had won the Giro. In effect, he rode into someone else’s party. At 39 seconds, it was only the tenth closest margin of victory in Giro records, eclipsed, for instance, by Dumoulin’s 31 second win over Quintana in 2017. When it was over, Jai said, “I did everything I could, I laid it all out there on the road. I asked to receive the time checks and I knew what was happening but there was nothing I could do. The result? It is what it is, I accept that and I regret nothing.”