Classic stage after rest day madness! Giulio Ciccone (Bardiani-CSF) took a joyful solo victory atop Sestola with Ivan Rovny (Tinkoff) and BMC’s Darwin Atapuma completing the podium. Movistar sent Andrey Amador on a snatch-and-grab mission. Heroic defence by Etixx-Quick Step kept the maglia rosa in the team and onto shoulders of Bob Jungels. The BIG news of the day was Mikel Landa (Sky) abandoning the race through illness.
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It’s our second week in pink and the Giro tweets are really flowing now! We have the Gorilla and the ArgoSunGod; the Shark and Birdsong; Mick Jagger and FlechaWatch. Plus action from stages 7, 8 and 9. Plus we take a little detour to California to look at The Velvet Samurai‘s truly amazing hair! It’s all here! Continue reading
We LOVE it when the break of the day makes it all the way to the line, and the four riders today were brilliant. Surely the victory is due to the tenacity and daring of the break, rather than a mistimed catch by the peloton!