Refresh
On the intermediate dash, Kooij and Van Uden additionally went for some factors, putting third and fourth, having declined lots of the factors on supply in earlier phases. Listed below are the up to date rankings within the factors classification:
M. Bais, Milesi and three different riders have a niche.
The dash out the way in which, the assaults recommence.
Truly, Pedersen nearly got here round Plowright to take the utmost factors.
Jensen Plowright challenges Pedersen for the dash, and seems to pip him on the line.
190KM TO GO
An intermediate dash is arising in 2km, and thus Lidl-Trek have shaped a practice on the entrance of the peloton for Pedersen.
Andrea Pietrobon is the primary rider shortly to get a small hole, however he too has been introduced again.
Kasper Asgreen is in the back of the peloton, speaking to his group automotive. He should be exhausted after his stage-winning efforts yesterday.
Nonetheless a number of assaults are being made, nevertheless it’s been some time since anybody opened up any delight between themselves and the peloton.
200KM TO GO
They too have been introduced again. This might go on for some time longer but.
Pedersen retains attempting, and has Soudal’s sprinter Paul Magnier with him.
Extra riders be a part of them, earlier than the peloton catches them.
As have Quintin Hermans, and Mads Pedersen within the maglia ciclamino.
Georg Steinhauser and Wout Poels have joined Planckaert.
Edward Planckaert has attacked and has a niche.
He is introduced again, by a fierce tempo set by an Astana rider main the peloton.
Michael Hepburn is the newest rider to have a small hole, albeit solely of about two seconds.
Taco van der Hoorn is main this one, attempting to propel his teammate Louis Menitjes.
210KM TO GO
Egan Bernal is true in the back of the peloton. That is not a really perfect place for a rider ninth on GC to be. Is he feeling OK?
They’ve all been introduced again.
A Bahrain and Soudal rider have bridged as much as this main quartet.
Fabio Van den Bossche is the Alpecin rider, and he and Van Aert have been joined by Vacek and Tarling.
Van Aert has gone once more, and this time obtained a small hole, together with an Alpecin rider.
That pair has been introduced again.
Gijs Van Hoecke has joined Konrad.
Patrick Konrad is the primary rider to get a little bit of a niche. With Ciccone out of the race and his GC bid over, Konrad and the remainder of the Lidl-Trek group are freed as much as solely chase phases.
Wout van Aert is . He is among the many first riders to try to rise up the highway.
OFFICIAL START
Del Toro is on the group automotive, as we look ahead to the flag. This can be a massive day for him, as he’ll begin to learn the way properly he can climb this deep right into a race.
Though we attain the mountains later within the stage, the primary 100km at the moment are flat. That may give some non-climbers the possibility to get into the day’s break, and a head-start forward of the climbing.
After yesterday’s rain, the climate is drier and skies bluer at the moment.
The riders are off, rolling out from the unofficial begin.
Regardless of his robust place, Del Toro remains to be being coy about his probabilities. “In my mind, or my body, things are the same,” he mentioned after his time beneficial properties yesterday, “I simply wish to be up there.”
Within the aftermath of yesterday’s crash, it’s been introduced at the moment that Giulio Ciccone is not going to be persevering with the Giro. The Italian was taken to hospital after taking place yesterday, and it’s been determined that he’ll abandon the race.
It was all change in the GC yesterday, because the late crash induced vital time gaps between lots of the favourites and consequently adjustments within the order of the highest ten. There’s more likely to be but extra at the moment because the riders tackle the Alps for the primary time.
quarter-hour till the riders roll out in Fiume Veneto to begin at the moment’s 3.9km impartial zone.
This is a glance again on the stage 14 outcomes.
A day for the breakaway specialists before week three kicks off?
And here is the stage 15 map, because the riders make their means throughout Northeast Italy.
This is a have a look at the profile of at the moment’s stage, which options ascents of the notorious Monte Grappa and the Passo Dori earlier than the end in Asiago.
Hi there and welcome to our dwell protection of stage 15 of the Giro d’Italia!
