In normal circumstances, a 26-year-old taking their first-ever UCI win in a Grand Tour would go down as a big surprise, and a win from behind, but somehow, when Daan Hoole did just that on stage 10 of the Giro d'Italia, it seemed as natural a result as anything.
Forget the fact that Hoole has only ever won one race before – the Dutch national time trial championships last year – or the fact that he was up against, on paper, stronger TT specialists, because after a week of Lidl-Trek masterclasses in this Giro, Hoole was just continuing that winning trajectory.
