The oft-repeated cliché is that you couldn't write the script - that the action is too unbelievable to be predicted. The irony being, obviously, that most of the time it absolutely could be written; it's rare for something truly absurd or novel to happen.
It was a cliché uttered multiple times on TV on Saturday as Simon Yates stormed towards the pink jersey on stage 20 of the Giro d'Italia, after he attacked on the Colle delle Finestre and dropped his podium rivals. The same Colle delle Finestre where in 2018 Yates suffered on that year's stage 19 of the Giro, as Chris Froome flew to a famous victory.
