Primoz Roglic strong favourite for Giro after crushing time-trial win

• Slovenian makes light of rainy conditions to take ninth stage
• Simon Yates loses 3min 11sec to the stage winner

Primoz Roglic emerged as the overwhelming favourite for the Giro d’Italia when he won the ninth stage, a 34.8km individual time trial from Riccione to San Marino. Britain’s Simon Yates, among other contenders, suffered a heavy loss of time to the Slovenian in wet conditions.

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