‘You would be fuming’ – Are Bora blowing Jai Hindley hopes by not attacking ‘vulnerable’ Ineos at Giro d’Italia?

Bora-hansgrohe risk throwing away Jai Hindley’s general classification dream at the Giro d’Italia if they continue hunting stage wins, according to Eurosport experts Adam Blythe and Robbie McEwen. Bora surprisingly sent two riders – Lennard Kamna and Wilco Kelderman – into the breakaway on Tuesday’s queen stage in the mountains, leaving Hindley with little protection. Ad/> Hindley was eventually isolated on the final climb despite still having team-mates up the road, with Kamna in the hunt for a solo victory before a late implosion saw Jan Hirt (Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert Materiaux) come through to take a first Grand Tour win.

Giro d'ItaliaHirt stars on Mortirolo in Stage 16, Hindley slashes Carapaz lead5 HOURS AGO The Australian gamely battled to win a sprint for bonus seconds ahead of Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers), closing the gap on the Ecuadorian to just three seconds in the race for the maglia rosa. But Bora’s scattergun tactics came in for heavy criticism on The Breakaway, with Blythe saying they risk derailing Hindley’s GC ambitions. “We’ve got Hindley who’s in a great position, he’s absolutely flying.

But then you’ve got the team who are obviously after stage wins as well and I don’t know what’s more important to them at the moment,” said Blythe. “The team is saying: ‘we’re going to support you 100%… apart from the riders we’re going to send up the road’. I can imagine if that works it’s the best idea in the world but today it didn’t work.