Simon Yates vows to come back to try again after 'heartbreaking' Giro d'Italia

Mitchelton-Scott's Simon Yates summed up his eighth place overall at the Giro d'Italia on Sunday – 7:49 behind winner Richard Carapaz (Movistar) – as "heartbreaking". The British climber, who won last year's Vuelta a España, said that, although he was disappointed, he would return to the race to try again.

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