Mikel Landa (Team Sky) came through the opening Giro d’Italia time trial feeling satisfied overall at having minimized his losses in a time trial stage that, as he saw it, did him no favours whatsoever.
The Basque climber had commented beforehand that a 10 kilometre time trial might not sound so long, but it was surely long enough to create some initial important time gaps between the favourites.
In his case and in the long-run, finishing 67th in the Apeldoorn course, 40 seconds down on winner Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin) was not as significant as only losing 16 seconds compared to Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) or 21 seconds on leading favourite Vincenzo NIbali (Astana).
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Talking at the line, Landa commented that “I think it was difficult but the time I recorded was quite good.. I’m a bit tired but I’m happy with my result.
“This was one of the time trials that worried me, short and flat and not at all favourable for me and I thought I’d lose more time,” Landa said afterwards to Eurosport. “The time was within what I hoped for overall.
“My legs hurt, though, it’s hard to quantify exactly how badly, I was going well but I felt pretty rough at the same time.”
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