Giro Rest Day Rant: Ed Hood looks back over the last six stunning days of the 2022 Giro d’Italia: Stage 10 through to stage 15, from Pescara in the South to Cogne in the Alps. With the mountains on the Giro horizon, the race is on…Here comes the big Giro climbs# You can see the ‘First Rest Day Rant’ HERE and the ‘Second Rest Day Rant’ HERE. #Watch the most comprehensive live & ad-free coverage of the Giro d’Italia 2022 on GCN+. Go deeper and get interactive with live polls & quizzes, plus rider profiles, race updates, results & more plus stream original and exclusive cycling documentaries. Watch it all with GCN+ on any device.STAGE 10:Like Jennifer Paige said in Crush, Let’s not over analyse, Don’t go too deep with it, baby And as Scotlands immortal bard, Rabbie Burns said; “A mans a man for a that.” Race, colour, creed are irrelevant, what matters is whats in a mans heart. However, for sure a historic moment as Biniam Girmay takes Black Africas first Grand Tour stage win.Biniam Girmay making historyBut its not Africas first stage win in a Grand Tour, thats down to the late, Alan van Heerdens Stage Seven win in the Giro way back in 1979. Alan van HeerdenIt was another 20 years before Robbie Hunter repeated the feat with victory in Stage One of the 1999 Vuelta. Two years later Hunter pulled off another Grand Tour victory in Stage 17 of the Vuelta; Danilo Hondo in second…
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