I stupidly started the Foxtel Now free trial 2 weeks
before the Giro started.
At least I got to watch a few of The Monuments, which I've never watched before!
Anyway, I've been downloading the ESPN Brazil highlights (I'm extremely time poor and can only watch the highlights) and have to say that it is, hands down, the most
rubbish highlights package I have ever seen! Granted I can't understand a word of it, but the telemetry is absolutely hopeless. Time gap information disappears when groups close in, distance data disappears under a km. Stage 3 only showed the stage winner on the podium and didn't show the GC standings at all (so I had no idea who was leading), and Stage 4 didn't have any podium coverage, and no stage or GC standings so again, I had no idea who was leading the race. After watching the Stage 4 highlights I had to Google for the results!
Oh how I yearn for the SBS highlights package...
That aside, happy to see Dennis in pink - I like him. Not convinced it was a bad move to take it so early if it was there for the taking. Just hope he doesn't jeopardise a top 5 place trying to hang onto it if that was his original game plan. It's hard for me to have much of an opinion on how the rest of it is playing out as, for example, I'm not sure EPSN know that Froome is riding in the Giro this year...