‘Probably can’t wait to leave’ – What has gone wrong with Caleb Ewan at the Giro d’Italia?

Caleb Ewan “probably can’t wait to leave” the Giro d’Italia after failing to secure a sprint victory. The Australian (Lotto Soudal) is expected to depart the race after Stage 11 with no more guaranteed bunch sprints left on the programme. Ad/> The pre-race focus was pinned on his duel with Mark Cavendish (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl), but they have just one win between them after the Manx Missile’s victory on Stage 3 in Hungary.

Giro d'ItaliaGiro d'Italia Stage 11 — Route map, how to watch as Cavendish seeks 17th win13 HOURS AGO Ewan has cut an isolated figure throughout the race, with his Lotto team-mates opting to leave him behind as he fell back on the climbs. “I get this sense with Caleb that he’s a little demotivated. He just looks empty emotionally,” said Adam Blythe on The Breakaway.

“He’s almost worried going into the sprint – he wants to do it, but in the back of his head he’s probably thinking ‘I don’t want to mess up again, I don’t want to mess up again’. That can be hard to get yourself past once you keep failing, failing, failing. “Everybody is watching him.

It’s Caleb, we’re always going to mark him out. When you’ve got people there wanting to film you at your lowest point, it’s difficult.” Blythe added: “It’s demoralising yesterday, to be left on his own, the No. 1 guy on that team.

The whole team’s just gone ‘nah, we’re leaving you behind. That’s it, we’re done.’ It must be quite hard to take, realising your team doesn’t want to help you. Ewan would have missed out on the sprint on Wednesday – the last pan-flat stage of this year’s race – but for the tireless efforts of team-mate Thomas De Gendt, who dragged him back into the main pack.