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Primoz Roglic set to win Giro d’Italia after seizing lead from Geraint Thomas

Geraint Thomas’s Giro d’Italia challenge evaporated on the steep slopes of Monte Lussari in north-east Italy, as his closest challenger, Primoz Roglic, clawed back his overnight deficit on the Welsh rider to move into the race leader’s maglia rosa by 14 seconds. With only Sunday’s processional sprint stage in Rome remaining, Roglic’s success is assured.

In a nail-biting climax to the three-week race, the 18.6km individual time trial from Tarvisio to Monte Lussari finally revealed how strong Roglic, riding for Jumbo-Visma, truly was, despite a disastrous moment midway through the stage when he slipped his chain on the steepest gradients. He recovered his composure and carried on to win the stage by 40 seconds from Thomas.

“I could feel my legs going a kilometre and a half from the top of the climb,” said Thomas, leader of Ineos Grenadiers. “I don’t want to sound like I’m making excuses but I just didn’t feel like I had that real ‘grunt.’ I guess it’s nice to lose by that much, rather than a second or two, because that would be worse.

“At least he smashed me and to be honest, Primoz deserves that. He had a mechanical as well, and he still put 40 seconds into me so chapeau to him.”

Chloe Dygert beat Lizzie Deignan in a reduced sprint after a frantic end to stage two of the RideLondon Classique in Maldon.

Dygert had the power to hold off Deignan on the uphill sprint to the line, having been able to hide in the wheels during the last 10 kilometres after the American's Canyon-SRAM teammate Maike van der Duin had gone solo off the front.

Van der Duin was only caught inside the last few hundred metres after a big crash on the approach to town disrupted the chase and left Friday's stage winner Charlotte Kool on the ground. The

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