Alberto Dainese delivered the first home victory of this year’s Giro d’Italia as he won stage 11 in Reggio Emilia.
The 24-year-old upset the bigger name sprinters as he powered his way past Fernando Gaviria, Simone Consonni and Arnaud Demare to win on the line and take his first victory in two years — and his first in a Grand Tour.
Mark Cavendish and Caleb Ewan were both too far back — Cavendish perhaps paying for the loss of key lead-out man Michael Morkov to illness — but Dainese had been alongside Cavendish when he launched his attack, finding space on the left to come from well back in the pack.
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- May 19, 2022
