Cancellara’s fevered dreams of pink

Fabian Cancellara’s maglia rosa dreams fell away as quickly as his temperature rose. He lay in bed, less than 24 hours before the Giro d’Italia’s first stage, the first and best opportunity to lead his final Giro.

After missing out on Flanders and Roubaix, the Giro’s pink jersey was his next goal. But Cancellara finished the prologue in eighth, 14 seconds back on Tom Dumoulin. Pink is now a dream diminished, but not gone.

“Never say never. He has 14 seconds in the overall, you know the Giro is a tough race, you never know what can happen,” Trek – Segafredo director Luca Guercilena told VeloNews before Saturday’s stage. “When you have the condition you can always try to make it.”

Cancellara does indeed have the condition, even if it’s masked by illness at the moment. He came to the Giro off a hard training block at home in Bern, Switzerland, where he was producing …

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