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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Casper van Uden delivered a shock sprint victory on Stage 4 at the Giro d’Italia to lift Picnic PostNL out of the relegation zone in the UCI World Rankings. It was Van Uden’s first sprint in a three-week race and he stepped up magnificently to see off Olav Kooij in the finale. Meanwhile, Mads Pedersen saw his nine-second advantage over Primoz Roglic trimmed by two seconds in the fight for pink.
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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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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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