Giro d’Italia De Bondt leads breakaway home as sprinters denied on stage 18

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Peleton miscalculation leaves Belgian to win four-man sprintJoão Almeida withdraws before stage after positive Covid testDries De Bondt won stage 18 of the Giro d’Italia as a four-man breakaway denied the final opportunity for Mark Cavendish and the rest of the sprinters.The predominantly flat 156km run from Borgo Valsugana to Treviso should have been one for the quick men, and the last bunch sprint of this Giro, but the sprint squads got their sums wrong as the break stayed clear, with De Bondt beating Edoardo Affini, Magnus Cort and Davide Gabburo to the line. Continue reading...

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