Wearing the beloved pink jersey for the first time in his career on stage 5, Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) was certainly not having a bad Giro d’Italia, but was frustrated once more on stage 9 as his latest attempt to try to win a stage was once again thwarted.
The Italian led solo into the final kilometres of the Corno alle Scale climb after being in the break for half the day, but was gutted to be caught 1.7km from the top by the GC riders, who had kept the break within catching distance all day.
He didn’t give up on the breakaway-friendly stage, though, attacking once more with 72km to go, and bridging across to the lead – both benefitting from and later thwarted by the fact that the peloton kept the breakaway within around two minutes all day.
However, with never much more than a minute and a half on the GC favourites group – Visma-Lease a Bike had wanted to let the break go, but Decathlon CMA CGM kept them close – Ciccone’s hopes were dashed quickly once Jonas Vingegaard and Felix Gall went on the attack.
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