Giro d’Italia preview: Remco Evenepoel takes fight to Simon Yates, Egan Bernal
AFP
Young Belgian rider
Simon Yates and
The 21-year-old, dubbed the heir to the legendary Eddy Merckx, fractured his pelvis after hitting a bridge wall and plunging into a ravine during the Tour of Lombardy in Italy last August.
Saturday’s opening stage is an 8.6km time trial along the River Po in Turin, and after covering 3 480km around the peninsula the Giro finishes back in the north in front of Milan’s Duomo on May 30.
Former Vuelta a Espana winner Yates, who was forced to retire from last year’s delayed Giro after testing positive for Covid-19, returns and warmed up with a win on the Tour of the Alps.