XDS-Astana claimed their second stage victory of the Giro d’Italia as Davide Ballerini outpaced Jasper Stuyven (Lidl-Trek) on a finish in Naples ruined by a last-corner crash.
Giro organisers had eschewed the flat finish in the city of previous years, instead routing the peloton onto cobbles in the final kilometre with a sharp bend positioned 300 metres from the line.
“But when we arrived in the last corner, I saw that the first two guys had a crash. I just exited from the corner and I heard in the radio ‘Go, go, go – to the finish. There is a gap.’ I just started and then I was hoping the line would come really fast. I made it and I’m really happy.
Beyond the battle for the stage win, there was no change in the general classification after the stage. The peloton reached Naples all together, and so Afonso Eulálio…
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