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Balsamo extended her lead overall, but she will lose it on Tuesday in the uphill time trial.
A quick newsletter this week. The Wheel Talk newsletter will be trimmed down this week. With the Giro on, all my attention is on the race, and I hope yours is too!
By: Jack Duncan
Road bikes with disc wheels, time trial bikes with climbing wheels, road bikes with time trial extensions. It was an interesting day at the Giro d'Italia.
Five years after winning an uphill time trial at the 2021 Giro, Van der Breggen did it again on Tuesday.
Anna van der Breggen finished second to Vollering and held onto her overall lead ahead of stage 6.
Due to fallen snow and suspicious ice sheets, the race organizers made the call to cut out the Sestriere climb and end the stage 27.5 km early.
For the second time in 2026, Anna van der Breggen started the final stage of a "Grand Tour" in the leader's jersey, but ended up losing it.
Some thoughts that have stayed with me since the Giro ended... It took a few days to recover from this year's Giro d'Italia (for me, that
All Tour de Suisse, all the time. The Tour de Suisse starts tomorrow, and even though Demi Vollering, the recent winner of the Giro d'Italia
FDJ United-Suez isn't just a little team from France anymore...
