JAMES KNOX - GUEST COLUMN - I GET KNOCKED DOWN, BUT I GET UP AGAIN

Wow, what a rollercoaster of a last week it’s been! We got through Tuesday and Wednesday with two immaculate team performances to defend the pink jersey and the dream was starting to become real.

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But reality hit us all hard on the Stelvio. It had been an all-out day of racing just to arrive at the foot of the climb, primarily thanks to Sunweb. Rohan Dennis then took over and the rest is history – bodies everywhere.

Hearing encouragement for João [Almeida] over the radio as he struggled was a real hammer blow, all the work that had gone into defending pink was gone in an instant.