The theme of the second week of the Giro d'Italia is that, when it comes to the GC fight, most riders are just waiting for the third week. All of the hardest climbing is packed into the final six stages, and there's a sense that anything that's happened so far could be easily ripped up once the race hits the mountains.
As a result, many of those last-week stages are being pencilled in as GC days, meaning that the breakaway specialists, who have not been rewarded many times so far in this race, are searching out chances to go for the win.
