Giro d’Italia week one: How the white roads of Tuscany exploded the race for the pink jersey. By Jacob Whitehead. ... punctuated by Mattias Skjelmose’s win at Amstel Gold last month. ...

Mattias Skjelmose has had to swallow some bitter pills in the lead-up to the Tour de France. The Danish rider from Lidl-Trek wasn’t fit in time to race either the Critérium du Dauphiné or the Tour de ...