When Primož Roglič and his Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe teammates finally sat down and took stock at the conclusion of the first six days of racing on Italian roads at the Giro d'Italia they would have realised that there was good news and there was bad news.
The positives were that Roglič had already been race leader for two of those days. The negatives were that he had fallen, they had lost Jai Hindley and – the biggest worry of all – the 2023 Giro champion had been outflanked by UAE Team Emirates-XRG, sitting 2 minutes 25 seconds behind Isaac del Toro and half that to Juan Ayuso.
