Rome — British cycling star Chris Froome insisted on Monday he still believes he can win the Giro d’Italia despite trailing the race leader, Simon Yates, by more than two and a half minutes. The four-time Tour de France winner lost time in the mountains of the southern Abruzzo region on Sunday and is 11th overall after nine stages. Crashes before the first stage in Jerusalem and on the eighth on the climb towards Montevergine di Mercogliano have complicated his task. But Froome insists he is still very much in the race as he bids to become the first rider to win three consecutive Grand Tours after the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana in 2017. "It is a big gap," conceded the Team Sky leader on Monday’s second rest day. "But we’ve got some extremely tough racing coming and we’ve got a long time trial as well. "I wouldn’t say it’s likely at this point, but stranger things have happened. "Whenever you crash the body is going to take a bit of an impact and I’m not pedalling the same as...
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