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Geraint Thomas’ general classification hopes at the Giro d’Italia have suffered a big blow after Ineos Grenadiers team-mate Pavel Sivakov abandoned on Stage 16. Ineos had already lost 2020 champion Tao Geoghegan Hart to a fractured hip and Filippo Ganna to Covid. Ad Sivakov's departure leaves Thomas with just four support riders in the final week.
Geraint Thomas believes Mark Cavendish, who announced his retirement at the end of the current season, is the “greatest sprinter of all time" and says it has been «an honour to ride with him». Cavendish is currently at the Giro d’Italia and is expected to compete at the Tour de France this summer, where he hopes to break the stage record that he currently shares with Eddy Merckx. Ad Thomas has raced alongside Cavendish for Great Britain as well as for one season at Team Sky.
Calling all GC contenders – your time is now. After a rather drab fight for the maglia rosa at the Giro d'Italia so far, we can belatedly expect the big-hitters to spring into action at the start of the final week with over 5000m of vertical gain awaiting the peloton on Stage 16. Ad The riders have 64km to ease their legs back into proceedings, mostly along the western shore of Lake Garda, before the race heads uphill for the first, and definitely not the last, time.
For all the drama at this year’s wet and wild Giro d’Italia, the general classification battle has been unavoidably underwhelming. Pre-race favourite Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) pulled out due to Covid ahead of the first rest day, just hours after surging into the leader’s pink jersey, while Ineos’ hopes of a twin GC threat unravelled when 2020 champion Tao Geoghegan Hart abandoned with a fractured hip after a freak crash on Stage 11.
Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates) took a maiden Grand Tour win on Stage 15’s ‘mini Lombardia’ at the Giro d’Italia after edging out Ben Healy (EF Education–EasyPost) and Marco Frigo (Israel-Premier Tech). The American closed down an earlier move from Healy, then clung to him on the last climb as the pair went into the finale together – unaware that their cat-and-mouse tactics were allowing Frigo back into contention.
“It’s going to be like a Classic – but in a Grand Tour!” says Eurosport expert Adam Blythe. A mini Lombardia? An urban mountain stage? Stage 15 at the Giro d’Italia promises to be fun. Geraint Thomas will return to his familiar robes of Ineos Grenadiers on Sunday after deciding to let Bruno Armirail (Groupama–FDJ) take the maglia rosa to give the Welshman an evening off from post-race leadership duties.
Geraint Thomas will not line up in the leader’s pink jersey on Sunday’s Stage 15 after the Welshman and his Ineos Grenadiers team decided to surrender the overall lead. The Welshman has been in the leader's pink jersey since Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) pulled out of the race with Covid ahead of the first rest day. When Ineos team-mate Tao Geoghegan Hart also departed the Giro after fracturing his hip in a freak crash, the race looked set for a straight showdown between Thomas and Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma).
Germany's Nico Denz won today's stage of the Giro d'Italia with another powerful sprint to the finish line of the rain-soaked 193-kilometre ride from Sierre to Cassano Magnago, while France's Bruno Armirail seized the leader's maglia rosa jersey.