Luke Durbridge knows he is not alone in regarding Wednesday’s stage of the Giro d’Italia as the last roll of the dice to stake some claim of the winner’s pie.
With mountain stages on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and the last day into Milan on Sunday being suited for the sprinters, Wednesday is the last opportunity for the rouleurs from teams not contending for the overall classifications to escape on the flatter – but certainly not flat – terrain of the 134km 17th stage from Tirano to Lugano.
Durbridge (Orica-GreenEdge) is such a rider, and his confidence is bubbling well after his 10th place in Saturday’s stage 14 time trial from Treviso to Valdobbiadene.
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Most significant about the Australian’s time trial performance was not the result, but that it reassured him that he would be strong going into the third week.
The Australian did not target the time trial as he would normally do, considering he started the Giro off the back of sustaining two broken ribs and cuts in a crash one week before the race started on May 9. His main job was to throw his all into the stage 1 team time trial that Orica-GreenEdge won and then see what happens.
Durbridge, 24, told Cyclingnews that Orica-GreenEDGE head sports director Matt White told him at the start: “Just ride through the Giro and see if you can get better.”
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