When looking back at the 2015 Giro d’Italia it’s hard to think of any negatives. Maybe there were a lot of crashes and definitely there were too many punctures on the last stage in Milan. The only ‘what if’ would be Landa being told to wait for Fabio Aru in a Froome/Wiggins sort of way. Ed and Martin are back home in Scotland and ‘happy’ to be at their day jobs, so we asked them for the ‘Top 12′ best things Giro.Alastair, our Euro editor, has decided we should do a piece about our favourite ‘Giro things’ – he likes to squeeze those last drops.Here’s our top dozen for the 2015 Giro d’Italia:12: Rituals:It takes a wee while to get back into the rhythm of being a journo on a Grand Tour.Where everything lives in the car, every day run to a written schedule, finding a stampa to buy your Gazzetta, finding the start, not getting lost, finding the hotel, writing on the move, editing pictures, placing the pictures in the piece, pressing ‘send,’ finding a late night place to eat, doing the washing, bed, breakfast, REPEAT.But it’s a rhythm which has its own beauty and simplicity and within a day you’ve found the groove and nothing, and I mean nothing, matters except, Il Giro.11: Iljo:If you’re a man for betting on the dogs, then you’ll know that the greatest greyhound ever was a brindle male called, ‘Mick The Miller’ he had speed, stamina, class and charisma – he ended...
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