With speculation mounting that Chris Froome will ride the Giro d'Italia as well as the Tour de France in 2018, Cyclingnews takes a look back at Team Sky's troubled relationship with the Italian Grand Tour.
In stark contrast to their fortunes at the Tour de France, where they have five of the last six titles, the British team have had a rough time at the Giro over the years, with crashes, abandons, disqualifications, and time penalties all enhancing the race's reputation as the unruly cousin of the more orderly Tour de France.
Starting in 2010 and in the team's first season and first Grand Tour, Cyclingnews charts the team's fortunes over the following eight editions.
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2010: A flash of pink
Sky's first taste of the Giro – their first taste of Grand Tour racing – could not be sweeter. Bradley Wiggins triumphs on the short opening time trial in Amsterdam and pulls on the first maglia rosa of the race.
After the first high comes the first low. On the flat first road stage, still on Dutch soil, Wiggins is involved in a mass pile-up before being caught up in another crash 7km from the finish, causing him to lose the pink jersey.
Wiggins begins to shed time on the aggressive stage 7 and that trend continues – even on the next individual time trial – as he insists his primary focus is July's Tour de France.
2011: An uneventful affair
2012: Cavendish's triple
2013: Misery for Wiggins
2014: Cataldo's Cima Coppi the sole reward
2015: Porte's ordeal
2016: Landa's abandon
2017: Motorbike madness
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