Sam Bennett’s Giro hotel; stripper poles, swings, ceiling mirrors
Sam Bennett has been spilling the beans on some pretty unusual Giro d'Italia hotel accommodation for his team.
One of the really excellent additions to the media landscape on this Giro d’Italia, Sam Bennett’s race diary in the Irish Independent has come up trumps again.
Bennett has proven really willing to open up about the racing and life off the bike on a Grand Tour.
And it is in the latter arena that he hits the sport in today’s dispatch. He outlines in great detail how some of his team members were staying in strippers’ accommodation in recent days.
While Bennett also did himself an injury grappling with the showers in his regular hotel room, a couple of the soigneurs were in much more interesting quarters.
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“They have a room complete with mirrored ceiling, remote control mood lighting and a strategically placed stripper's pole,” Bennett writes in the Giro D’Italia Diary.
“Being pretty straight-laced Germans, the guys are so embarrassed about it, but I think it's hilarious, especially as it's the room where half of the lads had to go for their massage this afternoon,” he added of yesterday’s rest day spent in Bergamo.
“I don't think the mirrors on the ceiling were designed for that. Apparently there are another two rooms with a similar vibe; the dark room, which apparently has a swing in it, and the oriental room.
“I don't know what the oriental room is all about but I doubt you'd get a decent chicken curry in it.”
Training on rest day
Faced with a savaged 222km stage today, which includes two ascents of the Stelvio, Bennett said he made sure to put in some hard efforts yesterday to try and keep his body ready for battle.
“After warming up thoroughly, I did a few 30 second efforts at VO2 max with 30 second recovery between them just to wake my body up,” he said.
“After that I did a solid 10-minute tempo effort before we settled into an easier rhythm and stopped for coffee on the way back.”
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