Giro d'Italia 2023: Britain's Tao Geoghegan Hart prepared to play the long game for GC hopes in Italy

Tao Geoghegan Hart (Ineos Grenadiers) says he is prepared to «bide his time» at the Giro d'Italia during an expected GC battle with Primoz Roglic (Team Jumbo Visma) and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick-Step). Briton Geoghegan Hart triumphed at the Giro in 2020 as he picked up his first Grand Tour success. Ad It's been a difficult period since then — chiefly due to a combination of illness and injury — but he won the recent Tour of the Alps to indicate he is one of the riders in contention for the maglia rosa.

Giro d'ItaliaGeoghegan Hart 'really strong' and can upset Giro favourites Roglic and Evenepoel — Gilbert5 HOURS AGO He will have star backing within his Ineos team, with 2018 Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas and two-time world time trial champion Filippo Ganna — the latter also a six-time stage winner at the Giro — set to ride alongside the London-born 28-year-old. «The ambition has to be to try [for the overall race win],» Geoghegan Hart told BBC Sport. «A three-week race is really long and you can sit before it and say anything you want but in the end it's a big adventure.

»You just wake up each day, take that stage as it comes and look forward to Rome — always. «We've got a super tight-knit group, it's a really, really strong team going in. »Ultimately a team to some extent is only as strong as its leader but we have a few very strong cards to play.