The Giro d’Italia usually produces a thousand subplots. This year, every strand of the narrative seemed to be knotted around Tadej Pogačar's dominance. Rarely in the history of this race has one man dictated the temperature quite like this.
At every turn from Turin to Rome, Pogačar was in the frame. Indeed, only a smart sprint from Jhonatan Narváez (Ineos Grenadiers) denied the rider from UAE Team Emirates the historic feat of leading the Giro from start to finish. In the mountains, from Oropa to Monte Grappa, nobody could so much as lay a glove on Pogačar.
