Chris Froome surprised to see 'untouchable' Yates unable to respond to attack at Giro d'Italia

Froome looks forward to explosive racing in the coming mountain stages

Chris Froome attacks on stage 18 of the Giro d'Italia

(Image credit: Tim de Waele/Getty Images)

Chris Froome (Team Sky) says that he was "surprised" as he put time into Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) on stage 18's Giro d'Italia summit finish to Prato Nevoso.

Froome leveraged an earlier attack from Team Sky team-mate Wout Poels. Over the following two kilometres, Poels drove the pace to help Froome put 28 seconds into Yates while Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb) and Domenico Pozzovivo (Bahrain-Merida) followed.

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Gregor Brown

Gregor Brown is an experienced cycling journalist, based in Florence, Italy. He has covered races all over the world for over a decade - following the Giro, Tour de France, and every major race since 2006. His love of cycling began with freestyle and BMX, before the 1998 Tour de France led him to a deep appreciation of the road racing season.