Stage 21

The road

At the start

Rome, and a third Grand Tour in a row

Chris Froome carries 46 seconds over Tom Dumoulin into Rome, with Miguel Ángel López third at 4:57. Today is a procession by any other name — 115 kilometres of laps past the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus — and a sprint at the end of it for Sam Bennett and Elia Viviani, who have six stage wins between them. If Froome finishes, he holds all three Grand Tours at once.

How it was won

1. 176 km to go

   Protests neutralise the GC

   Angry at an unsafe, cobbled circuit and a lack of marshalling, the riders force officials to freeze the general classification after three laps and cancel the bonuses.

2. 2At the line

   Bennett wins in Rome, Froome is champion

   Sam Bennett jumps from Viviani's wheel for his third win of the race amid the monuments of Rome, as Chris Froome rolls home to be crowned the 2018 Giro d'Italia champion.

The result