Giro disaster so sad for G - but Yates can survive Stage 3 carnage
The Bradley Wiggins Show by Eurosport
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🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Brad and Graham sit down to catch their breath after a remarkable Stage 3 of the Giro d'Italia, which wrecked Geraint Thomas's GC hopes as he fell victim to a stray bidon in the neutralised zone.
Thomas bravely battled through the stage but was dropped as the peloton reached the foothills of Mount Etna and Brad sadly concedes that his good friend's Giro challenge is over as a result.
Although it was painful for Brad to watch, he says the chaos we saw just underlines why the Giro is the best race on the calendar and why you should never underestimate the Italian Grand Tour.
Simon Yates also shipped plenty of time but Brad says it's not over for the Mitchelton-Scott rider, who could have just suffered a Liverpool-style blip...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm on holiday this week, scuba diving in the Caribbean. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm going to be underwater most of the time, so if you want me, you might have to learn whale. |
| 0:16.0 | Ooh, whew... Yours, Lucy. |
| 0:24.8 | Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways holidays take your holiday. |
| 0:29.8 | At a protected. Welcome to the Bradley Wiggins show by Eurosport, the home of cycling, sponsored by |
| 0:47.6 | Cyclist magazine. |
| 0:48.9 | A bonus episode for a day full of drama, stage three of the G d'italia, Brad, 150 kilometres with a summit finish |
| 0:55.7 | on Mount Etna. We thought there might be a GC shake-up. I mean, and we got far more than we |
| 1:04.0 | bargained for, really, didn't we? Jonathan Casado, Education first, won the stage, but that was only |
| 1:08.6 | a tiny bit of the story. Garron Thomas, Simon Yates, both suffering huge losses. |
| 1:15.5 | Look what we were saying yesterday. |
| 1:17.1 | Two of those four that you were saying yesterday just shows you that the nature of the |
| 1:21.6 | Gero and how quickly it can turn out. |
| 1:23.2 | I mean, I wouldn't really believe that that would happen, but I never underestimate the duo. |
| 1:28.9 | And look who's back now in the top five, six, looking like... |
| 1:32.7 | Well, the shark sense blood, didn't he? |
| 1:34.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.7 | Just shows you. |
| 1:35.6 | And it was great to watch. |
| 1:38.0 | It wasn't pleasant for me to watch grind like that in that pain. |
| 1:40.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:41.0 | I felt for him, you know. |
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