A shortened Stage 16 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia still served up some excitement. Julian Alaphilippe led for most of the stage but no one was stopping Pogacar in his domination of the race. He took his fifth stage win with what looked like little effort.
After a late in the stage attack by Filippo Ganna, the sprinters made their expected run at the line, with Jonathan Milan powering through for the win from 300m out to win Stage 4 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia.
Einer Augusto Rubio of the Movistar squad had the legs to make the final go above Crans Montana to win Stage 13 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia.
Stage 6 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia looked to come down to a two-man sprint between Simon Clarke and Alessandro De Marchi, who lead the race from early on, but a catch at 200m saw the race come down to a bunch sprint. Ultimately, it was a win for Mads Pedersen (TFS) in Napoli.
Tadej Pogacar stands to be confirmed as Tour de France champion for the second year in a row after Wout Van Aert won the stage 20 time trial in Saint-Emilion on Saturday.
With a little over a week remaining to the June 26 start of the 2021 Tour de France, oddsmakers Sports Betting Dime are pegging defending champion Tadej Pogacar to walk away with the maillot jaune again this year
Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick Step) claimed his first victory of the year on Stage 2 of the 2021 Tirenno-Adriatico in a hard and long uphill finish in Chiusdino where Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) and Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) rounded out a formidable podium
Peter Sagan won Stage 13 of the 2018 Tour de France in a bunch sprint, besting Alexander Kristoff (UAE Team Emirates) by a wheel in Valence.
John Degenkolb survived the cobbles to win the dramatic 9th stage of the 2018 Tour de France.
Nairo Quintana and the Movistar Team took a step forward in their aspirations to win the 2017 Giro d’Italia as they claimed a convincing win on Stage 9.