Aaaand Frankie is out of the Giro.

Oh, well, never mind Frankie, you did your best.

I haven't seen any footage of the alleged incident when Rasmussen shoved on a team-mate, thus losing his own momentum and causing Frankie to bump into him, fall off, and dislocate his shoulder, but I did check the tweets, and honestly Frankie, I don't think you did yourself any favours with those comments.

If you want sympathy (and who doesn't, once in a while?) it is always better to say "had a really bad day today, fell off and hurt myself" than to name names:  that just leads to hand-bag waving and bad feeling.

Still, you have your revenge on Mr Bruyneel for shoving you into the race at short notice, don't you? What with Eeeeebennati dropping out as well, we're down to just three Leopards in the team now, none of whom were part of the Saxo departures, so it will be interesting to see if anyone else abandons.

An extremely unworthy thought did cross my mind, bearing in mind that we haven't heard anything from Andy lately, and that we knew Frankie didn't want to do the Giro - I'm wondering if the boys have decided to forego extending their palmares this year, do the minimum, fail to finish races, and get their contracts broken?

I still don't know whether a contract can be binding if it is bought by another sponsor, so although I'm pretty sure they had a joint four-year contract with Mr Becca/Leopard, I have no idea if they are still bound by that contract now that they are at Shack. Is it possible that poor performance this year could lead to early termination of that contract?