A wild day at the Giro d’Italia saw Wout van Aert complete his collection of Grand Tour triumphs, Isaac del Toro take the leader’s pink jersey and Primoz Roglic leak time as the white roads of Tuscany caused chaos on Stage 9. It was a supreme redemptive ride for Van Aert, while Del Toro, originally riding in support of Juan Ayuso and Adam Yates, becomes the first Mexican to lead the Giro.
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Luke Plapp won his first Grand Tour stage with a dominant solo win on Stage 8 at the Giro d’Italia, while Diego Ulissi grabbed the leader’s pink jersey as Primoz Roglic and his Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe colleagues chose to let it go. Plapp comfortably proved the strongest from the day’s breakaway, with 2023 champion Roglic and the GC big hitters coming in over four minutes down.
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Juan Ayuso’s devastating late attack saw the Spaniard swoop to a maiden Giro d’Italia stage win in the race’s first summit finish at Tagliacozza. Ayuso led home a UAE Team Emirates-XRG one-two ahead of Mexico’s Isaac del Toro and Colombia’s Egan Bernal. Out of position for the finale, Primoz Roglic did enough to take over the pink jersey by just four seconds.
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Alpecin-Deceuninck capitalised on the chaos on the slippery streets of Naples as Kaden Groves picked up his first win of 2025 in a sodden Stage 6 of the Giro d’Italia. The day was marred by a big crash that ended the hopes of 2022 champion Jai Hindley and saw the race neutralised and then stopped. Despite the GC times and points being cancelled, the final sprint went ahead – to Groves’ delight.
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Denmark’s Mads Pedersen celebrated his new contract with Lidl-Trek with his third – and arguably most impressive – win of the Giro d’Italia. Pedersen battled back after being dropped on the tough climb into Matera before holding off Italy’s Edoardo Zambanini and Britain’s Tom Pidcock in a nail-biting sprint to the finish line.
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