Purple reign: a lively stage that finished well ahead of schedule. It was windy at the start and a nervous bunch was lined ...

A time trial stage in Tuscany. After Sunday’s stage shuffled the deck, this will reshape the GC for the week and beyond too. Beef, beef, beef: we’re in the land of the Bistecca alla Fiorentina, the ...

The scenic sterrato stage on the strade bianche to Siena. Plapp turns a corner: an anarchic stage with move after move. Mads Pedersen led a trio that dangled off the front for the best part of an hour ...

The scenic sterrato stage on the strade bianche to Siena.

No summit finish but as much climbing as the previous today, this could be for the breakaway at last. Juan day at a time: the early breakaway saw Paul Double take some mountains points and the move ...

One of only two summit finishes in this year’s race. Scivolata + volata: a crash and a sprint. Josh Tarling tried to get into the early breakaway but this was closed down, presumably out of precaution ...

The stage goes to Napoli, the fourth visit in as many years. Game, Set, Matera: a third stage win for Mads Pedersen. On paper the stage suited him, but UAE tried to put that paper in the shredder and ...

A stage almost designed for Mads Pedersen. Casco van Uden: a sprint stage so not much to watch on TV but the crowds came out, especially in towns. Some of them got to see Lidl-Trek’s hiccups, Mads ...

“A day for the sprinters”, code for saying tune in for the finale. That Was Albania: it wasn’t Yorkshire or Slovenia. Just taking a race to a new country isn’t sufficient to attract media attention ...

A mountain stage? Yes, and Mads Pedersen has his work cut out if he wants the maglia rosa back. Primož inter pares: the stage win for Josh Tarling, the overall for Primož Roglič who fared the best of ...

A time trial, today’s stage accounts for a third of the Giro’s kilometres against the clock so this in an important day for the GC contenders. Monte Carlo simulation: Albania looked the part.

The Giro d’Italia starts with a hilly stage from the coast to the capital. The Route: 160km and after a spin along the sea front, it’s inland to Elbasan, once the home of Albania’s steel industry, now ...