Larry Warbasse: Giro d'Italia's third week is insane

Larry Warbasse at the Giro d'Italia 2023
Larry Warbasse at the Giro d'Italia 2023 (Image credit: Getty Images)

As the Giro d’Italia takes a breather on Monday after nine days of hard racing, American participant Larry Warbasse offers a stark warning of what’s to come for himself and the remainder of the peloton.

“The third week looks insane,” the AG2R-Citröen veteran told Cyclingnews a couple of days ago in the Giro. “If we can save some matches, that’d be great because I think we’ll definitely see some rolling dead men by that point in the race.

Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.