Dries De Bondt pulled off a surprise as a plucky four-man break defied the peloton and the Belgian took a fine Stage 18 win in Treviso ahead of Italy’s Edoardo Affini, Denmark’s Magnus Cort and Italy’s Davide Gabburo. A thrilling finale saw the teams of the sprinters fail to make the catch as Arnaud Demare and Mark Cavendish were left empty-handed on the last flat finish of the Giro.
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Frenchman Arnaud Demare rewarded his Groupama-FDJ team for all their hard work with a third win on the Giro d’Italia after the breakaway was caught inside the final kilometre of Stage 13 to Cuneo. Demare strengthened his grip on the maglia ciclamino after holding off Phil Bauhaus, Mark Cavendish and Fernando Gaviria on a day pink jersey candidate Romain Bardet abandoned through illness.
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Stefano Oldani surged to a first pro win from a leading trio in Genoa after Alpecin-Fenix exploited their numerical advantage to devastating effect in Stage 12 of the Giro. Teammates Mathieu van der Poel and Oscar Riesebeek proved the perfect decoys for Oldani, who held off Lorenzo Rota and Gijs Leemreize. Elsewhere, Wilco Kelderman and Lucas Hamilton clawed back eight minutes on GC.
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Alberto Dainese became the first Italian to win a stage on this Giro d’Italia after coming from nowhere to edge Fernando Gaviria in Reggio Emilia and frustrate the favourites Arnaud Demare, Mark Cavendish and Caleb Ewan. Spain’s Juan Pedro Lopez retained the pink jersey as Richard Carapaz rose to second in the general classification after snatching three bonus seconds in an intermediate sprint.
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After days of knocking on the door, Biniam Girmay is now a Grand Tour stage winner – and in quite some style. The 22-year-old Eritrean fought back after riding the wrong way at the business end of an absorbing 196km Stage 10 through the hills of Le Marche before outlasting his big Dutch rival Mathieu van der Poel in an epic sprint for the ages.
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