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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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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Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard survived a late scare on the last descent of the decisive final time trial to Rocamadour, won by his Jumbo-Visma teammate Wout van Aert with consummate panache. Yellow jersey Vingegaard gave the green jersey a run for his money but eventually settled for second place 19 seconds down as he all but secured victory in the world’s biggest bike race.
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Frenchman Christophe Laporte ended the host nation’s long wait for a win with an opportunistic surge at the end of Stage 19 to ride to glory in Cahors. Tadej Pogacar put in an audacious attack inside the final 35km but it came to nothing – although the defending champion’s fifth place in the final sprint saw him shave off five seconds from rival Jonas Vingegaard’s lead.
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