Mads Pedersen survived the Albanian mountains to retake the leader’s pink jersey with a brilliant sprint win on Stage 3 at the Giro d’Italia. Just like the opening stage, Lidl-Trek protected their leader throughout before a long and successful leadout. Pedersen leads the Giro by nine seconds from pre-race favourite Primoz Roglic courtesy of bonus seconds.
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Josh Tarling (Ineos Grenadiers) lived up to his pre-stage favourite tag by claiming victory in the Time Trial on Stage 2 of the 2025 Giro d’Italia. After storming into the lead, the 21-year-old was made to sweat as Primoz Roglic (Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe) looked to leapfrog him but fell just a second short. The Slovenian did however, take the overall race lead from Mads Pedersen.
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Mads Pedersen sprinted to victory on the opening stage of the Giro d’Italia in Tirana, taking the first pink jersey of the race in the process. The Dane pipped Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) on the line. The Lidl-Trek rider had been put in the perfect position by his team on both the final climbs of the race and into the final corner, and managed to hold off Van Aert in the closing metres. Orluis Aular (Movistar) finished third.
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The Scottish city of Edinburgh will host the Tour de France Grand Depart in 2027. It will be the third time the race has started in Britain after London in 2007 and Leeds in 2014. Organisers also confirmed on Wednesday that the Tour de France Femmes will come to Britain in 2027, the first time both races have held stages in the same country outside of France.
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Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar has pulled out of the Olympic Games because of “extreme fatigue”, the Slovenian Olympic Committee has said. Pogacar completed victory in this year’s Tour by taking Sunday’s final stage, which was a time trial, to win the illustrious 3,498km race for a third time. Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz will not be defending his Gold Medal after winning the King of the Mountains category at the Tour this year.
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