RAI television's coverage of the Giro d'Italia is punctuated at regular intervals by an advert for Continental tyres starring Vincenzo Nibali, first behind the wheel of a car and then aboard a bike. "To see an Italian attack on a climb, you have to wait for the ad with Nibali," was the lament of one local wit on social media last week.
In the days since, Antonio Tiberi has given lie to that assertion, first with a pair of accelerations atop Prati di Tivo and then with another brace of efforts on the final haul up to Bocca di Selva on stage 10.
