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Stage 14 of this year’s Giro was always going to be one to watch. Plenty of pundits had the second Saturday circled in their calendar long before the race had started constructing its Hungarian grande partenza, let alone arrived in mainland Italy. Yet even as the short, punchy Piedmontese profile invited aggressive riding, and promised to reward risk-taking, few could have predicted the devastating effect it would have on the general classification.

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Etapa 14: clasificaciones del día y así queda la general del Giro

GIRO DE ITALIA | ETAPA 14

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Popped cork forces stage winner Girmay to abandon Giro

Hours after becoming the first Black African rider to win a Grand Tour stage, Eritrea's Biniam Girmay has been forced to abandon the Giro d'Italia after suffering an eye injury during the podium celebrations.

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Eritrean Biniam Girmay creates cycling history with Giro d'Italia stage win

Biniam Girmay created history on Tuesday by clinching stage 10 of the Giro d'Italia on Tuesday.

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Girmay: "Me doy cuenta de que estoy haciendo historia"

Biniam Girmay sigue escribiendo páginas de historia en el ciclismo para el continente africano. El eritreo, tras conseguir la primera victoria de un ciclista de su continente en la se mostró exultante por conseguir el objetivo con el que había venido a la Corsa Rosa, en su primera participación en una gran vuelta. «Empecé el Giro con ganas de ganar una etapa. Todo el equipo me apoyó hoy, incluso los corredores de la general, Domenico Pozzovivo estuvo increíble en el final. A 600 metros de meta, dijo: 'ven'. Me empujó para ganar», explicó el corredor del Intermarché-Wanty.

Biniam Girmay: Trailblazing Eritrean beats Mathieu van der Poel to make history with Giro d’Italia victory

Biniam Girmay (Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert Materiaux) became the first Black African rider to win a Grand Tour stage after holding off Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) in a thrilling finale on Stage 10. Girmay was forced to fight through the pack in the closing kilometres after briefly going the wrong way on a descent, but his superb Intermarche team delivered him back to the front of a reduced 30-man group that contested the win.

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Giro d'Italia 2022 - What can we expect from the second week of the Giro with maglia rosa on the line?

More storylines emerged from Sunday’s summit showdown on Blockhaus than an entire season of Game of Thrones – from Natnael Tesfatsion’s high-speed crash on the descent of the Passo Lanciano to the longest uphill sprint you’ll likely see from Jai Hindley, as the plucky Spaniard Juanpe Lopez battled to save his pink jersey in the Australian’s wake. Many things were confirmed during the brutal 191km test, most notably Tom Dumoulin still being well short of his GC level and the poor state of Simon Yates’s knee following his crash on the road to Etna last Tuesday.

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Richard Carapaz? Romain Bardet? Jai Hindley? The contenders for ‘wide open’ Giro d'Italia assessed

The fight for the maglia rosa at the Giro d’Italia is “wide open”, according to Eurosport expert Robbie McEwen, after an explosive outing on the Blockhaus left just 29 seconds separating the top seven riders. Juan Pedro Lopez (Trek-Segafredo) survived his toughest test in pink but saw his lead slashed as Jai Hindley (Bora-hansgrohe) chalked up a surprise win on Stage 9.

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