@ The Irish Times by Ian O’Riordan (Photo Credit: Graham Watson)

Irishman had to overcome Italian team-mate and defy the baying home crowd

Certainly one of the most intriguing Giro stories of the last a few years, here from the eyes of an an Irish Times sports journalist .

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