Simon Yates has Giro d’Italia lead halved by Tom Dumoulin’s late burst

• Dutch rider reduces Briton’s advantage to only 28 seconds
• Under pressure Briton says: ‘I was just a little bit tired’

“It’s a good question,” said Simon Yates, his words unusually hesitant and imbued with apparent self-doubt. “I don’t know. I hope not. We’ll see.”

As rallying cries go, it was hardly Henry V before Agincourt. Especially given the fact that his interrogator was asking whether the first cracks in his effort to win the Giro d’Italia were beginning to show.

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