Puncture and stop behind a crash in gravel stage fail to faze Cian Uijtdebroeks at Giro d’Italia

Of all the GC contenders in the Giro d’Italia this year, Cian Uijtdebroeks’ race across the gravel of Tuscany on stage 6 was one of the most eventful. The 21-year-old Belgian had to handle both a puncture and then a stop to his forward progress when he put his foot on the ground due to a crash in front of him on one of the gravel segments.

The second incident was by far the more serious when teammate Atilla Valter went down, thankfully without major consequences, but the Visma-Lease a Bike rider, fourth overall, later earned fulsome praise from his team for not panicking in either circumstance.