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The 42
6 days ago
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- The 42
Verona bags sixth win for Lidl as Giro hits mountains
SPAIN'S CARLOS Verona of Lidl-Trek won stage 15 of the Giro d'Italia on Sunday while Team UAE's Isaac Del Toro remains in the overall lead after a mountainous 219km stage from Fiume Veneto to Asiago. Verona's solo triumph was the 32-year-old's first-ever win on a grand tour and Lidl-Trek's sixth stage win on the 2025 Giro — Mads Pedersen, with four, and Dan Hoole taking the other five. The victory came, however, on a day that started badly for Lidl-Trek with the retirement of team leader Giulio Ciccone, who pulled out injured after a difficult day in the saddle on Saturday. Verona peeled away on the final climb and held a slender advantage over the peloton all the way to the line. The 21-year-old Del Toro did enough to hold on to the lead, the Mexican remaining 1min 20sec ahead of Simon Yates with Spaniard Juan Ayuso third, six seconds further adrift — small change given the mountains ahead. 'The whole country is behind me. It's incredible, like a dream,' said Del Toro, who took the lead a week ago, and is now being followed by an increasing number of Mexicans arriving in Italy to support him. Egan Bernal's Ineos team were a chief protagonist during an eventful stage, with attacks on both big climbs. Advertisement 'We have nothing to lose on this Giro, and everything to ride for,' Bernal said. Second-placed Yates of Visma kept his powder dry the first time Bernal accelerated on the Monte Grappa 21km climb, but Del Toro skipped after him with ease. Yates followed them on their second doomed attack on the final climb, more aimed at killing off the fading hopes of pre-race favourite Primoz Roglic. The Slovenian, who fell heavily on Saturday, suffered further serious damage to his aspirations, dropping out of the top five after losing another 1min 30sec. Monday is a rest day ahead of a challenging final week culminating in Rome on 1 June. The time gaps across the top 10 riders should be shaken up from stage 16 with five monster climbs and a summit finish as the 21-day marathon enters the Alps. The pure climbers such as Bernal, Yates and Richard Carapaz could cause more havoc there. 'The third week is where the action is,' said former Giro and Olympic champion Carapaz on Sunday. This is followed by another mountain run that is an invitation to the downhill daredevils with two huge descents on stage 17. The decider might be stage 19 with another five-mountain slog, while stage 20 has a giant 18.5km climb at 9.5% gradient to over 2000m altitude. Ayuso and Del Toro have time, youth and a strong posse in hand, but former Grand Tour winners are lurking. Yates, who won the Vuelta a España in 2018, is six seconds ahead of Ayuso, while 2019 Giro winner Carapaz of EF is a further 31sec off. Another Giro winner, and 2019 Tour de France champion, Bernal is another 1min 30 back and poised to strike in a gruelling final week. Darren Rafferty finished 97th, and fellow Irish rider Sam Bennett was 166th. Bennett, meanwhile, is 42nd in the points classification. You can view the results in full here.
France 24
22-05-2025
- Sport
- France 24
Kooij turns on the speed to take Giro sprint
Casper van Uden and Ben Turner rounded out the podium, as the sprinters took the spotlight from the overall title pretenders. The peloton rolled out of the start in Modena, birthplace of car-maker Enzo Ferrari, in first gear at the start of a stage designed for a showdown finale between pure sprinters. The 172km race was decided by the sharp final corner less than 400m from the line as the riders immediately behind Visma's Van Aert on the bend took the top places. "We were waiting for this one, we couldn't have hoped for better conditions and my team did a fantastic job," said Kooij. "We studied that corner." Mads Pedersen kept the sprint jersey as he finished fourth. Alpecin's Australian speed specialist Kaden Groves, winner of the last pure sprint finish, in Naples in stage six, was fifth. Young French sprinter Paul Magnier lost his chain and was in tears, as sprint opportunities are rare on this hilly 2025 Giro. Three days of rain are forecast for the rest of this second week with a hilly stage and flat one and a mountain run coming up. The final week of the Giro will be decisive. Stage 16 has five Alpine mountains for the peloton to enjoy. Stage 20 ends with a gruelling ascent of the Colle delle Finestre to the Sestriere ski resort, the moment when the overall winner is likely to emerge.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Pedersen sprints back into Giro pink after mountain goat incident
Denmark's Mads Pedersen won a mass bunch sprint on stage three of the Giro d'Italia at the coastal town of Vlore on Sunday on the final day of racing in Albania, which also featured a mountain goat running through the peloton. This was a second stage win on the 2025 Giro following the Lidl-Trek rider's opening day win and left him 9sec clear of Slovenian veteran Primoz Roglic in the overall standings. Despite a 10.7km climb with seven percent gradients 35km from the finish, an arrow-straight 1km home run on the Adriatic coast set up a very high speed finish where Pedersen went early and held off a late burst from Corbin Strong of IPT. "That's exactly what we wanted today. We have two victories already and the pink jersey," said a clearly ecstatic Pedersen, who finished in 3hr 49min 47sec. Halfway through the race, a mountain goat hit straggling rider Dion Smith of Intermarche-Wanty in the hills outside Vlore. Fortunately neither rider nor goat were hurt as a herd of goats and a large unaccompanied dog watched on, with Smith showing great reactions in staying upright as the goat ran across the road right into him. Many of the pure sprinters were dropped 60km from the finish while Saturday's time trial winner Josh Tarling led a 120km break on Sunday, but was caught and dropped by the peloton on the last climb. Roglic remains the highest placed of the favourites for the overall title with Team UAE rider Juan Ayuso 16sec behind him as the 22-year-old Spaniard attempts to defend the title his team won with Tadej Pogacar in 2024. Italian home hope Antonio Tiberi, Simon Yates of Visma, his twin brother Adam Yates of UAE and two former South American winners of the Giro, Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz and Colombian Egan Bernal, are all well positioned 25-50sec adrift. Those kind of gaps can go up in smoke over the space of a kilometre in the high mountains during the final week. After three days in Albania, the Giro heads back across the Adriatic to Italy, with Monday a rest day for the riders. Tuesday's fourth stage is a flat run to Lecce in the heel of Italy, where the pure sprinters such as Olav Kooij, Sam Bennett, Kaden Groves or Paul Magnier should be in the final mix. The rest of next week is hills galore as the riders criss-cross Italy via Matera and Napoli and climbing as far as Siena by stage nine. The final week of the Giro will be decisive with stage 16 featuring five Alpine mountains, and stage 20 ending with a gruelling climb up the Colle delle Finestre to the Sestriere ski resort -- the moment when the winner is likely to emerge. dmc/nf
France 24
11-05-2025
- Sport
- France 24
Pedersen sprints back into Giro pink after mountain goat incident
This was a second stage win on the 2025 Giro following the Lidl-Trek rider's opening day win and left him 9sec clear of Slovenian veteran Primoz Roglic in the overall standings. Despite a 10.7km climb with seven percent gradients 35km from the finish, an arrow-straight 1km home run on the Adriatic coast set up a very high speed finish where Pedersen went early and held off a late burst from Corbin Strong of IPT. "That's exactly what we wanted today. We have two victories already," said a clearly ecstatic Pedersen, who finished in 3hr 49min 47sec. Halfway through the race, a mountain goat hit straggling rider Dion Smith of Intermarche-Wanty in the hills outside Vlore. Fortunately neither rider nor goat were hurt as a herd of goats and a large unaccompanied dog watched on, with Smith showing great reactions in staying upright as the goat ran across the road right into him. Many of the pure sprinters were dropped 60km from the finish while Saturday's time trial winner Josh Tarling led a 120km break on Sunday, but was caught and dropped by the peloton on the last climb. After three days in Albania, the Giro heads back across the Adriatic to Italy, with Monday a rest day for the riders. Tuesday's fourth stage is a flat run to Lecce in the heel of Italy, where the pure sprinters such as Olav Kooij, Sam Bennett, Kaden Groves or Paul Magnier should be in the final mix. The rest of next week is hills galore as the riders criss-cross Italy via Matera and Napoli and climbing as far as Siena by stage nine. The final week of the Giro will be decisive with stage 16 featuring five Alpine mountains, and stage 20 ending with a gruelling climb up the Colle delle Finestre to the Sestriere ski resort -- the moment when the winner is likely to emerge. © 2025 AFP
