Weather: cloudy and a rising chance of rain for the final riders. Wet roads can be slower but the course isn’t too technical, more humid air is faster but colder air is denser and the temperature ...

One of only two summit finishes in this year’s race. Scivolata + volata: a crash and a sprint. Josh Tarling tried to get into the early breakaway but this was closed down, presumably out of precaution ...

The stage goes to Napoli, the fourth visit in as many years. Game, Set, Matera: a third stage win for Mads Pedersen. On paper the stage suited him, but UAE tried to put that paper in the shredder and ...

A stage almost designed for Mads Pedersen. Casco van Uden: a sprint stage so not much to watch on TV but the crowds came out, especially in towns. Some of them got to see Lidl-Trek’s hiccups, Mads ...

“A day for the sprinters”, code for saying tune in for the finale. That Was Albania: it wasn’t Yorkshire or Slovenia. Just taking a race to a new country isn’t sufficient to attract media attention ...