⁍ Australian Jai Hindley took the overall lead of the Giro d’Italia on the penultimate day.
⁍ Hindley narrowly lost to stage 20 winner Tao Geoghegan Hart but leads by 0.86 second.
⁍ Wilco Kelderman, who started the 190-km ride from Alba in the race leader’s Maglia Rosa jersey, finished 1:35 behind.
– This year’s Giro d’Italia is down to the final two days, with Sunday’s time trial set for a nail-biting finish. Australian Jai Hindley took the overall lead on the penultimate day but has less than a one-second advantage over stage 20 winner Tao Geoghegan Hart, Reuters reports. Hindley narrowly lost to Geoghegan Hart on Saturday, but he leads the Briton by 0.86 second ahead of the final time trial, which is expected to favor the Ineos-Grenadiers rider. Hindley’s Sunweb team mate Wilco Kelderman, who started the 190-km ride from Alba in the race leader’s Maglia Rosa jersey, finished 1:35 behind and now lies 1:32 off the pace after dropping out when Geoghegan Hart’s team mate Rohan Dennis set a high tempo in the first ascent to Sestriere. Joao Almeida, who lost the overall lead on the 18th stage across the snow-covered Stelvio pass on Thursday, attacked from the group of chasers that featured Dutchman Kelderman and double champion Vincenzo Nibali in the finale, to end the stage in fourth place behind Dennis. The stage had been due to go through the punishing Col d’Agnel and Col d’Izoard in France, but restrictions due to the COVID-19 crisis meant the organizers were forced to change the route and have the peloton climb up to Sestriere twice. Kelderman and most of the big guns were dropped in the first ascent to the ski resort.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cycling-giro/cycling-giro-set-for-nail-biting-finale-as-hindley-leads-geoghegan-hart-by-less-than-a-second-idUSKBN2790M6