Tim Merlier took his third stage win in the 2024 Giro d’Italia, besting Jonathan Milan at the line. Tadej Pogacar led his team-mate Juan Sebastian Molano out with 2km to go but it wasn’t enough to upset the top sprinters.
Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step) bested five or six of the best sprinters in the world to won Stage 18 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia, the 178 km long Fiera di Primiero-Padova.
Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) has won Stage 11 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia, the 207km long Foiano di Val Fortore-Francavilla al Mare. Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step) and Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) finished second and third respectively.
Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step) has won Stage 3 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia, the 166km long Novara-Fossano.
Soudal Quick-Step looks at the 2024 Giro d’Italia as a race of two halves – one with opportunities for the sprinters and the puncheurs, and just two proper stages for the GC men – and a second half heavily tilted towards the climbers.
The entry list of the 2024 Giro d’Italia, which will start on 4 May from Venaria Reale, has been announced today. As in 2023, it will be Rome that will celebrate the winner of the Trofeo Senza Fine.
Remco Evenepoel added another notch to his belt, sealing the GC victory at the 2023 edition of the UAE Tour, which came to a conclusion on the demanding gradients of Jebel Hafeet.
Tim Merlier opened his victory account for the year, winning Stage 2 of the 2022 Tirreno-Adriatico.
Egan Bernal caught breakaway riders Geoffrey Bouchard and Koen Bouwmans in the last few meters of today’s gravel road finish to claim his first Grand Tour stage win
France’s Victor Lafay claimed Stage 8 in Guardia Sanframondi as he powered to victory from a 9-man breakaway group at the bottom of the 4km long finishing climb.