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This is Bespoke, the BBC Cycling Podcast with Gareth Rees Owen.

Hello, welcome to Bespoke and we've reached the business end of the Giro d'italia.

Just three stages remain, three key stages. The big question, can Richard Carapaz

keep his hands on the Maya Rosa? Before we get to that with The Guardians, Torda France correspondent

Jeremy Whittle and the cycling broadcaster Laura Winter. Let's touch upon today and yesterday's stage and Laura

today gave me a very warm feeling throughout my body, especially my heart, the fact that the

breakaway survived. We all love a breakaway surviving, don't we? One of my favourite moments of any

bike race ever is when Harry Tanfield

won from that breakaway at Tawley, Yorkshire. We were all talking about the sprinters to look out for,

and I'd imagine it was the same today. You know, Ackerman v. DeMar in the fight for the points jersey,

and you forget there's a breakaway out there who are riding, fighting for their lives to get to the line first. And often you ask, what's the point in a

breakaway? Well, it's to get exposure, to pick up intermediate points and seconds, you know,

and potentially sometimes the chance you may just win the bike race. And that is what we saw

today from Chima. Damiano Chima won the stage.

Of course, he's from Nipo Vini, Fantini.

And his compatriots in the breakaway,

Nico Dens and Maestri were swallowed within 10 metres from the finish line.

So Chima literally survived by a bike length, Jeremy.

And was that due to his strength, the persistence of the

breakaway or complete lack of, or complete disorganisation of the chasing peloton?

I think actually all three may be correct, including a malfunctioning race radio, apparently,

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