Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2021 (Giro d'Italia)

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Here we go - 88k worth of climbing & descending coming up.  Breakaway has 4 mins, won’t last.  Multiple riders with reasons to attack, so....

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Typically Swiss hooliganism & irresponsible behaviour from the cowbell-wielding fans there.

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Damiano Caruso makes early bid for glory. Has 45 secs over Bernal & Yates with 30k to go.

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The road is a little wet and the descent a tad tricky, but oddly it's not been neutralized....  

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Very much deserved tap on the shoulders of Bilbao there by Caruso. What a ride.

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Once again Dani Martinez is the strongest on the climb.

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Bardet is dying in Caruso's wheel....where on earth is Caruso pulling these weeks from all of a sudden?  

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Bardet is parking the bike  

 

Now it's waiting for the inevitable attack by Yates....but he too cracks.

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Impressive win by Caruso, no problems for Bernal.

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Cavagna on his way to beat Ganna, who had a flat tyre (and then a bike exchange) in the last 2km....until Cavagna took a dive into the crowd in one of the last corners  

 

Luckily nothing bad in terms of injuries, he quickly got up and continued, ending up 12 seconds shy of beating Ganna.