Two rare red warnings for wind were issued for storm Eunice, the most severe and damaging storm to affect England and Wales since February 2014. Three named storms affected the UK in the space of a week. A red warning for extreme heat was issued and temperatures exceeded 40 ☌ for the first time, setting a new UK record. The UK experienced a brief but unprecedented heatwave in mid-July. The UK experienced one of the most significant spells of low winter temperatures since the exceptional December of 2010. The storm was named by the Danish Meteorological Institute. Storm Otto brought strong winds to northern and eastern Scotland and north-east England. Storm Noa was one of the ten most powerful April storms to affect England and Wales in the last 50 years. “The last week is so hard and so brutal that you can even take the (leader’s) jersey on stage 20 and become the winner of of the Giro this year,” Evenepoel said. Stage 19 has no flat sections and has five classified climbs including the Passo Giau, the Passo Tre Croci and the finish up the Tre Cime di Lavaredo, with gradients of up to 18%. The week kicks off with the Sabbio Chiese to Monte Bondone stage, with over 5,000 meters of elevation. Three of the last six stages have been given the maximum difficulty rating of five stars, including the penultimate day’s time trial. The race will likely be decided in the Dolomites Range in what promises to be an action-packed, demanding week before the final day’s ride through the streets of Rome on May 28. We’ve done a lot of races together and we can communicate well.” “So we’re looking forward to the race and getting stuck into it and doing our best together. Even how you rode on stage one, two, three, four doesn’t mean anything when you’re in stage 18, 19, 20. “The deeper you go into the race, nothing matters what you’ve done before. “It doesn’t matter what happened before Saturday,” Geoghegan Hart said. That also happened in Italy, in the Tour of Lombardy. That was his first race back after a serious accident the previous year that left him with a broken pelvis after a crash sent him flying off the side of a bridge. But of course, he’s Olympic champion in time trial as well, so it’s not going to be easy.”Įvenepoel crashed out of the 2021 Giro, the only time he has competed in the Italian Grand Tour. That’s the good recipe to try and beat him. “So I hope that I can be on the same level as him in the climbs and just be on a better level in the time trials. We were on the very same level when we speak about climbing. “But I think these doubts, I could wash them away after Catalunya. “Last year I had still some doubts that I could have the same level as him in the mountains,” Evenepoel said. Manfred: Vote on Athletics' Las Vegas move could take place at June meetingsĮvenepoel finished second to Roglič by just six seconds in the Catalonia Volta and the week-long race boosted the Soudal Quick-Step rider’s confidence in his ability to compete with the Slovenian. I won the UAE tour, we came second in Catalunya with a small margin and a nice race. “I just won Liège for a second time, so that’s a good way to start the Giro. “I think I can be here only with a positive feeling,” Evenepoel said Thursday. The 23-year-old Evenepoel comes into the Giro having won the prestigious Liège–Bastogne–Liège last month for the second year in a row. MILAN (AP) - This year’s Giro d’Italia is being billed as a two-horse race between the experienced Primož Roglič and the younger Remco Evenepoel.īut the Italian Grand Tour, which starts on Saturday, is often wet, wild and unpredictable - especially with a brutal final week.īoth Roglič and Evenepoel know that anything can happen over a three-week race and that even unheralded outsiders could lift the “Trofeo Senza Fine” in Rome at the end of the month.Įvenepoel became world champion last year and the Belgian also claimed his first Grand Tour success when he won the Spanish Vuelta, ending a run of three straight victories for Roglič.
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