Yates wins Giro d'Italia stage 14 as Carapaz takes maglia rosa
Simon Yates went solo in the finale to win the 14th stage of the Giro d'Italia as Richard Carapaz took over as overall race leader on Saturday.
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Etapa 14: clasificaciones del día y así queda la general del Giro
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Tom Dumoulin: Former champion abandons Giro d’Italia with suspected back injury on Stage 14
Tom Dumoulin (Jumbo-Visma) has abandoned the Giro d’Italia with a suspected back injury. The 2017 champion was 19’08” adrift in the general classification after shipping time in the mountains ahead of Stage 14, with the Dutchman instead focusing on helping his team secure stage victories. Ad/> He spoke coyly to Eurosport about his condition on Wednesday, pausing and looking around before saying: “To be honest, I have some issues with my back so it’s not great.” Giro d'Italia‘It’s not great’ – Former champion Dumoulin reveals back injury struggles18/05/2022 AT 17:38 Dumoulin was making his return to Grand Tour racing after taking a sabbatical in January 2021 to consider his future.
Giro d’Italia remembers Wouter Weylandt, 11 years on from tragic death
The Giro d’Italia remembered Wouter Weylandt as the race returned to the Passo del Bocco – 11 years after he tragically died on the descent. Flowers were placed at a memorial besides where he had the fatal accident.
‘It’s not great’ – Tom Dumoulin admits he is struggling with back injury at Giro d’Italia
Tom Dumoulin (Jumbo-Visma) has revealed he is struggling with a back injury after enduring a mixed Giro d’Italia. The Dutchman appeared reluctant to speak about his condition during a Eurosport interview after Stage 11, pausing and looking around before saying: “To be honest, I have some issues with my back so it’s not great.” Ad/> He shipped time on Mount Etna on Stage 4 as his GC hopes vanished almost immediately, before he bounced back to propel team-mate Koen Bouwman to victory on Stage 7 from the breakaway.
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.
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.
'Things are headed in the right direction' - Chris Froome sees light at end of injury tunnel
Chris Froome has issued an upbeat report on his fitness, saying he has seen more improvement than had been the case for a couple of years. The four-time Tour de France winner has been beset by fitness problems since picking up serious injuries in a crash in 2019. Ad/> It has been a long road to fitness for Froome, whose form in 2020 and 2021 was well below what he had produced in previous years.