He would have known what the term meant, it was fairly common slang when I was growing up, certainly can’t see it being coincidence that he put those particular 2 words together. In less enlightened times when I was in my teens and 20s pretty much any occurrence of the word fudge would lead to somebody making a crude double entendre. Suspect he hung around in circles with a similarly bad and dated sense of humour to me and what he said just came out of his mouth without really thinking about it. Obviously shouldn’t have said it on air and was correct that he apologised, but in the grand scheme of things it seems a pretty minor mistake that I’m sure he will have learnt from, hopefully everybody forgets about it and moves on.
On the Giro itself, delighted to see Hindley win after coming so close in 2020. Shame the GC race couldn’t have been lit up with more attacks but I think the fact that it wasn’t shows just how close the lead guys were.