SANTA CRISTINA, Italy — After a chaotic, wet and unusual start to the 16th stage of the Giro d'Italia, there was a familiar sight at the finish on Tuesday. Tadej Pogacar won on a much-altered 118.4 kilometers (73.
SANTA CRISTINA, Italy — After a chaotic, wet and unusual start to the 16th stage of the Giro d’Italia, there was a familiar sight at the finish on Tuesday.
Pogacar’s win seemed inevitable when the two-time Tour de France winner made his attack on the steep climb to the finish with 1.3 kilometers remaining and he made it look easy. Pogacar already had the biggest Giro advantage in seven decades and he extended that to seven minutes, 18 seconds over Martinez, who moved into second. Geraint Thomas slipped to third, 7:40 behind.
Tuesday’s route was altered last week because of a high risk of avalanches on the Stelvio. The riders were still scheduled to go partly up the famed ascent on a 206-kilometer leg from Livigno but cut across to Switzerland on the Umbrail Pass before joining the original route. “I’d like to see him in our position, go outside on the bike and do the start of the stage and see what his answer is after those couple of hours,” Ben O’Connor, who was fifth overall, told Eurosport amid the uncertainty.
“Despite a handshake between the parties, the athletes did not show up at the start in Livigno,” RCS said in a statement.
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