It was a pretty sedate start to stage two at the Giro d'Italia, but that doesn't mean the social media monitors at the teams' HQs were sitting around with their feet up.
The good people at Etixx-Quick Step, for example, were digging into the history books to see just what has ever happened in Nijmegen over the years - the town where Saturday's stage finishes.
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