Chaos as peloton taken onto wrong side of race barriers on sprint finish at Volta ao Algarve

The chaotic opening stage of the Volta ao Algarve has been cancelled, race organisers have said, after a large segment of the peloton mistakenly headed up the wrong side of the finishing straight.

The lead commissaries vehicle was allegedly directed off of the official route inside the final few hundred metres to the right-hand side of the roadside barriers and the majority of the peloton followed. That left Ineos Grenadiers rider Filippo Ganna to win the hugely diminished sprint among the riders who took the correct turning.