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BORGO VALSUGANA, Italy : Belgian Dries De Bondt of Alpecin-Fenix led a breakaway group to win stage 18 of the Giro d'Italia on Thursday in a closely-fought sprint to the line, beating Edoardo Affini of Jumbo-Visma in a photo finish.
Dries De Bondt (Alpecin–Fenix) won Stage 18 of the Giro d’Italia after the peloton miscalculated leaving a four-man breakaway to contest the stage. Mark Cavendish had slogged his way through the mountains in the expectation to contest a bunch sprint, but a reduced peloton miscalculated and were unable to reel in the escapees, leaving De Bondt, to seal the stage win.
A rider’s palmares should have no bearing on their participation at a Grand Tour, that is according to Robbie McEwen. The 12-time stage winner at the Giro was discussing the merits of Mark Cavendish going to the Tour de France on Eurosport’s pre-race show, The Breakaway. Ad/> The Manx Missile stands tall alongside the great Eddy Merckx as the leading stage winner at the Tour after a stunning return to form in 2021.
Adam Blythe has said that should Mark Cavendish start the 2022 Tour de France and seal a 35th stage success at the French Grand Tour, it will likely be a record that would stand for 100 years. The Manx Missile stands tall alongside the great Eddy Merckx as the leading stage winner of the Tour after a stunning return to form in 2021. The then 36-year-old’s win on Stage 13 in Carcassonne was the third of three successes at the Tour in 2021 to move alongside Merckx on 34 wins.
Mark Cavendish's last dance Ad/> As Mark Cavendish (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) slogged through the mountains, two words will have been echoing around his head: ‘Stage 18, Stage 18, Stage 18’. Giro d'ItaliaGiro d'Italia Stage 18 — Route map, how to watch Cav’s last dance10 HOURS AGO Two brutal days of climbing at the Giro d’Italia mean everyone will be hoping for a largely chilled run from Borgo Valsugana to Treviso, leaving the fast men free to squabble over the final bunch sprint… assuming the breakaway does not rip up the plan.
10:48 — Valverde sniffing around the front Ad/> 185km to go: The Spanish veteran is clearly motivated today after dropping out of the top 10 over the weekend. Valverde is just over nine minutes down on GC and it remains to be seen if a rider of his experience and calibre would be allowed to get in a break on such a key stage. The road is going uphill now but the official start to the climb isn't for another 20km.
Follow updates here from Stage 14 Ad/> Stage 13 recap Giro d'ItaliaDemare hat-trick as Cavendish and breakaway cruelly denied on Stage 1316 HOURS AGO A nail-biting finish to the short but eventful 150km Stage 13 from Sanremo to Cuneo saw a four-man break agonisingly swept up in the final kilometre as Frenchman Arnaud Demare (Groupama-FDJ) showed his class and confidence with a third win in this Giro d’Italia. Frenchman Nicolas Prodhomme (Ag2R-Citroen), Dutchmen Julius van den Berg (EF Education-EasyPost) and Pascal Eenkhoorn (Jumbo-Visma), and the Italian Mirco Maestri (Eolo-Kometa) held a maximum lead of over six minutes after the day’s only categorised climb, the Colle di Nava, before the teams of the sprinters combined to crush their dreams after an enthralling game of cat-and-mouse for the last two hours of racing.
Stage 13 finished in a bunch sprint with Arnaud Demare (Groupama-FDJ) sealing his third win in the 2022 edition of the Italian Grand Tour. The Frenchman held off Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious), Mark Cavendish (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) and Fernando Gaviria (UAE Team Emirates) after some ferocious jostling for position after a 150km ride from Sanremo to Cuneo, and the studio addressed the mechanics of a leadout during The Breakaway.