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‘It’ll be brutal’ – Almeida eyes mountain showdown at Giro d’Italia



João Almeida was on acquainted terrain on stage 17 of the Giro d’Italia, which introduced the gruppo by Treviso on its flat run to the end in Caorle. As a teen, the Portuguese rider spent a season there with native squad Unieuro Trevigiani, a key waystation on his highway to the WorldTour.

Almeida’s place at this stage of the Giro, too, is a well-known one. Like in 2020, when he carried the maglia rosa for 2 weeks, he reaches the ultimate days of this version nursing real ambitions of profitable the race outright. He enters the troika of decisive phases second general, simply 18 seconds behind Geraint Thomas (Ineos) and 11 forward of Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma).

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