Stage 2

The road

At the start

Ganna in pink, a ramp at Agrigento

Filippo Ganna took 22 seconds out of the entire field in Palermo and wears the first maglia rosa; Geraint Thomas is 23 down, so Ineos have both. Miguel Ángel López is already gone, hurt in a crash on the opening time trial. Today starts in Alcamo rather than Monreale and rolls south across Trapani to Agrigento, where the road rears up beneath the Valley of the Temples — not a sprinter's finish, not quite a climber's.

How it was won

1. 1111 km to go

   Sicilian hills stir

   The break scraps for space over the early climb of Santa Ninfa as a lumpy Sicilian stage rolls toward its uphill finale in Agrigento.

2. 229 km to go

   The favourites gather

   With the road tilting toward the Valley of the Temples, the GC teams mass at the front, wary of the steep ramp waiting in Agrigento.

3. 3At the line

   Ulissi powers home

   On the sharp rise to the line Diego Ulissi launches early and holds off Peter Sagan, giving Italy a second win in two days atop the climb to Agrigento.

The result