BBC 5 Live.

Switchbacks, rain, slippery roads.

Of course there was going to be drama.

Bespoke on tour.

As Chris Froome hits the deck once again, is he simply consistently unlucky?

Or is a great rider starting to lose his nerve?

Can Simon Yates keep his cool when all around are losing theirs and could the leading

young rider actually lead the Giro?

Hello, I'm Tom Fordice. Well, it didn't just rain it, it smashed it down towards

the end of stage eight today. For once, Jeremy Whittler and me almost glad not to be there. Jeremy, we'll talk about Chris Frum in a minute because he is accidentally, once again, the big story. But first of all, Richard Carapaz, the young Ecuadorian who won the stage. He's quite a talent, isn't he?

Well, yes.

I mean, I've just been looking back at the standings from the very first stage,

the time trial, and he's making progress, not massively significant progress,

but he's making progress up the general classification.

And I think just from that exhibition in the last

kilometer or so of the stage this afternoon it was the last

the last kilometer and a half I think you can see that he if he

carries on like that is going to be in in play very much in the

forthcoming summit finishes so I think I think I think we're going to see a

lot more of him he's the first Ecuadorian to win a stage. Yeah. On a grand tour. So why have more

Ecuadorians not done this? Because we're so used to looking at Colombians and seeing everything

they've done from Louis Herrera onwards, you know, to Kintana today, why have Ecuadorians not match them? Is

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