FILE PHOTO: Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 15 - Lyon to Grand Colombier - France - September 13, 2020. Team INEOS Grenadiers rider Egan Bernal of Colombia in action REUTERS/Stephane Mahe/File Photo
(Reuters) - The Giro d'Italia is traditionally the most unpredictable grand tour, and adding to this year's uncertainty is the fitness of Egan Bernal in the absence of the top guns.
Colombian Bernal won the 2019 Tour de France in dominant fashion but he has been hampered by back pain since and the Ineos-Grenadiers rider will start Saturday's individual time trial in Turin having not raced in more than seven weeks.
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