Stage 17

The road

At the start

A rest day, then the Sega di Ala

Bernal's ride into the cloud on the Giau has left him 2:24 up on Damiano Caruso and 3:40 on Hugh Carthy, with Vlasov and Simon Yates more than four minutes down and four days to find it. Out of the second rest day the race climbs the Passo di San Valentino and finishes up the Sega di Ala: 11.5 kilometres averaging 9.5 per cent, its middle section cruel.

How it was won

1. 139 km to go

   Dan Martin thins the break

   Fourteen kilometres at 7.8 per cent, and having swapped onto a climbing bike, Martin sets a pace only Moscon can hold. Bouchard bridges late to take the summit points and stretch his mountains lead.

2. 225 km to go

   Evenepoel over the guardrail

   Twenty-five kilometres from the line, on a fast sweeping bend, several riders go down and Evenepoel flips clean over the barrier. He needs treatment to his wrist and arm, remounts, and finishes 36 minutes down being pushed over the line by his teammates. His Giro is over.

3. 310 km to go

   Martin surges on the Sega di Ala

   The moment the ten-kilometre climb begins he drops the men he has ridden all day with, chasing a stage win that would complete the set across all three Grand Tours.

4. 44 km to go

   Bernal pedals squares

   Four kilometres from the top Yates accelerates, then accelerates again — and the maglia rosa is suddenly in real trouble, grinding at the pedals with Martínez alongside him shouting encouragement. Yates and Almeida ride away up the nine-per-cent slopes while Bernal fights simply to keep the jersey on his shoulders.

5. 51 km to go

   Sega di Ala

   Dan Martin holds on alone for the win. Bernal loses 53 seconds to Yates and, for the first time in two weeks, the Giro has a race for pink again.

The result