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Simon Smale

Giro d'Italia hit by multiple withdrawals due to rain, COVID, but the 1914 edition saw just eight finishers

The Giro d'Italia has been raced in pouring rain for long periods. (Getty Images: Tim de Waele)

By anyone's measure, this year's Giro d'Italia has been an incredibly attritional race.

As of the final rest day of this year's 3,489-kilometre slog around a sodden Italy, 44 of the 176 starters had withdrawn from the race.

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