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Jhonatan Narváez secured a spectacular breakaway victory on a hectic eleventh stage of the Giro d'Italia, launching a decisive two-up push on the final uncategorised climb to distance the rest of the field. The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider bested his final breakaway companion, Spanish climber Enric Mas of Movistar, on the technical run-in to Chiavari, crossing the line first after a perfectly timed final sprint. The 195-kilometre stage from Porcari to Chiavari had been highly anticipated as a day for the breakaway, which paradoxically made it incredibly difficult for one to form. Relentless attacking from the starting flag over the flatter Tuscan roads meant the peloton ruthlessly chased down every early move, and it took hours of high-speed racing for a definitive group of 17 escapees to finally establish a meaningful gap. The leading group eventually fragmented into an elite quintet over the late Ligurian climbs before Mas forced the issue inside the final 15 kilometres. Narváez e...

Jhonatan Narváez secured a spectacular solo victory on a chaotic eighth stage of the Giro d'Italia, launching a decisive attack to ride the final 10 kilometres entirely alone. The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider dropped his final breakaway companion, Norwegian champion Andreas Leknessund of Uno-X Mobility, on the brutal closing slopes into Fermo, crossing the line with a clear 32-second advantage. The 156-kilometre stage from Chieti to Fermo had been highly anticipated as a day for the breakaway, which paradoxically made it incredibly difficult for one to form. Relentless attacking from the starting flag meant the peloton ruthlessly chased down every early move, and it took until the halfway point of the race for a definitive group of escapees to finally establish a meaningful gap. Mikkel Bjerg did a mountain of work to set up the eventual victory for his UAE Team Emirates-XRG teammate before dropping back. Narváez then drove clear, and though Leknessund fought back bravely on a brief ...

Jonas Vingegaard claimed victory in the longest stage at a grand tour in 5 years, and on top of one of the most famous mountains in Italy, but that is not the talking point, as the gaps to the rest of the GC contenders were much smaller than many feared before a wheel turned this morning. The break of the day featured 5 riders, the most notable rider of the five being Jonathan Milan, who got up the road so he could take maximum points at the intermediate sprint to close the gap to Paul Magnier in the battle for the Maglia Ciclamino. But other than the break, nothing much happened for the first 200km of the stage; the break maintained a gap of over 5 minutes and poor Timo Kielich sat at the front of the peloton with little to no help. Finally, the action began to begin in the run-in to Blockhaus as the gap to the breakaway disappeared from well over five minutes to two and a half by the time the climb started. In the early slopes, the peloton stayed in the status quo until David Piganzo...