Eddie Dunbar stays seventh after shortened 13th stage of Giro d'Italia
Eddie Dunbar remains seventh in the general classification after an eight-placed finish on the shortened 74.6km-stage 13 of the Giro d'Italia on Friday.
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Mads Pedersen withdraws from 2023 Giro d'Italia after falling ill overnight, from second in points jersey standings
Mads Pedersen has withdrawn from the Giro d’Italia after becoming ill with a cough and throat infection. The Danish rider’s team, Trek-Segafredo confirmed the news on their Twitter account on Friday morning. Ad The team wrote: “Unfortunately we have to report that @Mads__Pedersen won’t take the start at today’s stage of the #Giro.
Giro d’Italia 2023: Nico Denz wins after breakaway chaos, Geraint Thomas holds pink as mountains loom
A huge 30-man breakaway animated an intriguing Stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia before four riders extricated themselves with 90km to go ahead of a well-deserved win for the German journeyman Nico Denz (Bora-Hansgrohe). Denz went clear of a leading quartet on the final climb of the day alongside Latvia’s Toms Skujins (Trek-Segafredo) and Australian debutant Sebastian Berwick (Israel-PremierTech) before getting the better of his two rivals in an exciting finish in Rivoli.
Giro d’Italia 2023: Pascal Ackermann edges Stage 11, Mark Cavendish third, Tao Geoghegan Hart crashes out
The longest day of the Giro d’Italia was won by the finest of margins as Germany’s Pascal Ackermann (UAE Team Emirates) pipped Italy’s Jonathan Milan (Bahrain Victorious) in a photo finish in the 219km Stage 11 to Tortona. Ackermann sprang from the wheel of Britain’s Mark Cavendish (Astana-Qazaqstan) to round Denmark’s Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) on the home straight to hold onto his first win of the season despite a late, late surge from Milan, the maglia ciclamino.
Giro d’Italia 2023: Magnus Cort wins Stage 10 from breakaway, Geraint Thomas survives cold and wet day in pink
For the second time in this Giro d’Italia, a powerful Danish sprinter completed a clean-sweep of Grand Tour stage wins after Magnus Cort (EF Education-EastPost) followed in the footsteps of compatriot Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) in Stage 10 at Viareggio. Cort got the better of fellow escapees Derek Gee (Israel-PremierTech) of Canada and the Italian veteran Alessandro De Marchi (Team Jayco-AlUla) to take an historic win on a day where heavy rain and sub-zero temperatures threatened to see the race neutralised.
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