DUTCHMAN SET TO MAKE HISTORY
Climbers vs Dumoulin as Giro heads to mountains
Riders face an array of punishing climbs on the final week of the Giro d’Italia
Bergamo — An array of punishing climbs on the final week of the Giro d’Italia stand between time trial specialist Tom Dumoulin making history as the first Dutch winner of the race’s pink jersey. But with a lead of more than two-and-a-half minutes on Colombian climbing specialist Nairo Quintana and nearly four minutes on Italy’s two-time champion Vincenzo Nibali, triumph on the coveted 100th edition of the Italian race is now Dumoulin’s to lose. "The third week will be very difficult," Dumoulin has repeated every day since he took the race lead from Quintana with a crushing time trial victory at Montefalcone on stage 10. And the towering Dutchman, with the smouldering film star looks, is not far wrong. After a third and final rest day on Monday the pink jersey battle moves up a considerable notch on Tuesday on a 16th stage that heralds the first of five consecutive days in the high mountains. Quintana, the 2014 champion, should be in his element and hoping that his Movistar team, as ...
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