Germany’s Pascal Ackermann rounded Britain’s Mark Cavendish and held off a late surge from Italy’s Jonathan Milan to pick up his first win of the season at Tortona. But Stage 11 of the Giro d’Italia was marred by a freak crash that brought down Ineos Grenadiers duo Geraint Thomas and Tao Geoghegan Hart. Welshman Thomas recovered to retain the race lead but the 2020 champion was forced to abandon.
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Denmark’s Magnus Cort gave his EF Education-EasyPost team a boost following the withdrawal of Rigoberto Uran with a thrilling win in Stage 10 of the Giro d’Italia from a three-man break in Viareggio. Cort outkicked Derek Gee and Alessandro De Marchi to complete his grand slam of Grand Tour stage wins on another wet, cold and immensely entertaining day in Italy.
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Remco Evenepoel was forced to withdraw from the Giro d’Italia after testing positive for Covid-19 hours after reclaiming the pink jersey on Sunday. Ineos Grenadiers’ Geraint Thomas has now assumed the race lead as a result of Evenepoel’s withdrawal.
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Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) looked like he was heading for victory on Stage 9 of the Giro d’Italia, only for Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) to take the honours by one second. Thomas took second place on the podium with Ineos team-mate Tao Geoghegan Hart coming in third. Evenepoel has a 45-second lead over Thomas in the general classification.
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Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard was crowned Tour de France champion in Paris on Sunday after crossing the line arm-in-arm with his Jumbo-Visma team-mates on the Champs-Elysees. With team-mate Wout van Aert opting not to contest the sprint, victory in Stage 21 went to Jasper Philipsen – despite an opportunistic last-ditch attack on the final lap by Tadej Pogacar.
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