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A tale of two Sundays as Giulio Ciccone saves his Giro d'Italia in Cogne
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Carapaz survives early crash to retain seven-second lead at Giro d'Italia
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Nibali: Tailwind meant it was pointless to attack on stage 15 of Giro d'Italia
'I want to try to leave a mark, but I'm high up on GC so that won't be easy' he says ahead of mountainous final week
Almeida angry after Ineos Grenadiers let gaps open in overall contenders' sprint
I was on the wheel and his teammate was breaking, that’s why I took the gap says UAE Team Emirates leader
We'll have news and reaction from Carapaz, Nibali, Ciccone, Almeida, and more...
Here's a photo of Carapaz celebrating with a Wolfie cuddly toy as we await more news from the Giro d'Italia today
Giro d'Italia: GC standings after stage 15
Carapaz remains in the maglia rosa despite early-stage crash
Carthy: I'm happy things are turning around at the Giro d'Italia
Briton battles to fourth from the break on summit finish at Cogne
Here's a look at Ciccone's final kilometre today...
๐ป LAST KM / STAGE 1️⃣5⃣"๐ผ๐ก ๐๐๐'๐ก ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐ต๐ข๐ก โ๐๐ค ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐กโ๐๐ก ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐โ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐"#Giro powered by @ItaliaNFT_art @TrekSegafredo @giuliocicco1 pic.twitter.com/fxIfU1T5weMay 22, 2022
Our full report is up along with an even fuller gallery. Check it out here
Finally, Arnaud Dรฉmare remains in the points jersey.
Joรฃo Almeida remains in the white young riders jersey.
Here's Bouwman in blue after he led the way over the first climb of the day.
He has 109 points to Diego Rosa's 92.
2019 KOM winner Ciccone is up to fourth place in that competition with 58.
Another day in pink for Richard Carapaz tomorrow. He wasn't put in any trouble today.
Ciccone celebrates his third career stage win on the podium
Here's a link to our brief report, including results and a gallery of the action today.
Giro d'Italia: Ciccone solos to Alpine breakaway win on stage 15
The 26-man peloton all came in at 7:48, no time gaps. No major names lost time today.
Martin did move up to 10th and he now lies at 8:02 behind Carapaz.
Here's what Ciccone had to say after the stage...
"Because the steep part of the climb was at the beginning so in my mind I said, 'OK if I go alone here I can arrive'. Otherwise in a sprint with two or three riders you never know what can happen. So I tried everything because my legs today were really good. I said ok I'd like to go alone and finally it was the best choice I could take.
"All last year I think I was in a good shape but bad luck in the Giro and Vuelta, so many problems, COVID-19. It's difficult when you need to confirm something. Today I think I can start another career.
"I think this has been my most beautiful victory, even better then yellow in the Tour de France or my first stage win at the Giro. It's my third but it has an indescribable value for me. It has been a really difficult period. When you try and try to win and nothing happens, it's always more difficult and it really tries your mental strength. I didn't feel like I was myself for a while and I kept trying and waiting and I found it."
Fabio Felline (Astana Qazaqstan) and Lennard Kรคmna (Bora-Hansgrohe) led the peloton home ahead of Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers).
They might have grabbed a second or two there!
7:49 for the peloton as they cross the line. Almost two minutes for Martin! He'll move into 10th.
The glasses throw at the finish from Ciccone! A tradition for him after doing it when he won stage 16 in 2019.
Martin finishes at 6:06 down.
Guillaume Martin coming home now.
The remains of the breakaway trail home, four, five minutes down..
Carthy is fourth at over three minutes.
And Pedrero takes third at over two minutes back.
Buitrago takes second place.
Ciccone bursts into tears after finishing.
Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) wins stage 15 of the Giro d'Italia
Ciccone celebrates as he approaches the finish.
Just over four-and-a-half hours of racing.
Ciccone rides the final metres.
1km to go
Final kilometre for Ciccone now! All set for the win.
A shot of Ciccone going solo up this final climb.
2km to go
Even more fans lining the roads and cheering Ciccone on as he races towards the finish.
3km to go
1:30 for Ciccone now. Buitrago comes to the sprint to take two seconds.
A shot of Ciccone getting cheered on by some of the fans lower down the mountain.
๐ฎ๐น G I U - L I O ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฎ๐น G I U - L I O ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฎ๐น G I U - L I O ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฎ๐น G I U - L I O ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฎ๐น G I U - L I O ๐ฎ๐น #Giro @TrekSegafredo pic.twitter.com/F9fqiwWORNMay 22, 2022
3.5km to go
Ciccone takes three bonus seconds at the final intermediate sprint.
Well, the Italian fans certainly will, at least. Plenty out on the road to cheer on Ciccone to this stage win.
This final climb didn't look particularly exciting on paper and boy has it lived up to that expectation... I don't know if many fans are going to remember the summit finish of Cogne in years to come.
5km to go
Into the final 5km now for Ciccone. He's still gaining time.
1:30 for Ciccone now. No action in the peloton yet.
Buitrago is almost a kilometre down the road.
7km to go
Ciccone keeps eking out a few seconds here and there. It's looking good for a third Italian stage win of the Giro.
Martin is set to leapfrog Jan Hirt and Alejandro Valverde from 12th to 10th today.
8km to go
No drama yet. Ciccone has 1:18 on Buitrago now. 5:35 to Martin. 7:20 to the peloton.
Will anything happen in the peloton? It's hard to imagine on these shallower slopes. Maybe someone will have a go, though.
Still 1:10 for Ciccone. It would take a disaster for him to lose out now.
10km to go
Final 10km for Ciccone. It's all gradients of 2-3-4% from here.
1:10 between Ciccone and Buitrago now.
Martin is 5:25 down on Ciccone. The peloton is 7:05 down.
11km to go
Buitrago is alone in the chase but he isn't making any headway into Ciccone's lead.
We haven't had any photos from the race for a while, so here's a look at Ciccone in the larger breakaway earlier on.
Now Pedrero is closing in on Carthy.
Ciccone is heading onto the softer gradients now.
Meanwhile, Buitrago leaves Carthy behind.
Easy job for me so far on this final climb because there's not really much going on now.
Well, it's around a minute from Ciccone to Carthy and Buitrago now. Giro d'Italia timing..
14km to go
1:08 for Ciccone now.
It's looking like he'll take the stage and Ineos will control it all the way to the finish.
Martin now has 1:30 on the peloton. He's on track to move up a few places here.
15km to go
50 seconds for Ciccone now.
Ineos continue to control the peloton. Nothing going on there.
If he keeps on going like this Ciccone is going to win the stage easily.
17km to go
He's flying here!
The gap now reads 45 seconds!
30 seconds for Ciccone now. He's powering on.
Ciccone only gaining time here. Up to 20 seconds now.
The peloton is six minutes down. Martin still a minute up on the group.
18km to go
Ciccone has 10 seconds on Carthy, who now has Buitrago with him.
The Italian has looked the strongest man from the break for some time, so this is no surprise.
Ciccone attacks again! Carthy can't respond.
19km to go
Buitrago still lingering behind Ciccone and Carthy as they continue up the toughest portion of the climb.
Pedrero leaves behind Tusveld and Costa.
Buitrago still chases Ciccone and Carthy, 10 seconds down.
20km to go
Ciccone pushes on at the front.
Buitrago drops away from Ciccone and Carthy a little.
The first 9km of the climb are run at around a 7% average, with a kilometre of descent in the middle.
After that, it's 13km of gentler gradients at around 3%.
Now Carthy pushes on a little more.
Ciccone, Buitrago, and Carthy up front. Pedrero, Tusveld, and Costa couldn't respond.
10 seconds between the groups.
Buitrago reacts. Carthy comes next.
21km to go
Ciccone attacks!
Ciccone, Buitrago, Pedrero, Carthy, and Tusveld start the climb.
Here's the final climb. It's not exactly the hardest summit finish we'll ever see.
Riders will be hurting after yesterday, but, as I said earlier, Ineos aren't going to light it up on these shallow slopes. It'll be up to someone else to make it an exciting stage.
The leaders are just a few hundred metres from the start of the climb now.
25km to go
Six up front now, 5:50 up on the peloton.
Just a few kilometres left until the start of the climb.
Ineos Grenadiers continue their control of the peloton.
Tusveld and Costa make it across to Ciccone, Carthy, Buitrago, and Pedrero at the bottom of the descent.
5:50 from the front back to the peloton.
28km to go
The leaders are nearly down in the valley now.
Martin, meanwhile, still hangs a minute on the peloton.
Tusveld leaving Costa behind a little on the descent now. They're reportedly within 10 seconds of the leaders now.
34km to go
Tusveld is coming back to Costa on the descent. The Portuguese rider is still 19 seconds behind the leaders.
Ciccone has pushed on at the front, meanwhile.
Martin is up with Cherel and Arensman as he starts the descent just under a minute up on the peloton.
All the main GC men are still in the peloton.
Martin is 12th overall at 9:44. He's almost six minutes down on ninth place though.
Martin passes Van der Poel on the road. Now he's a minute up on the peloton.
The final climb is 22.4km long. Around 13km of descent and then a bit of flat left to go before the riders hit that.
40km to go
Ciccone gets the 40 points over the top of the climb.
Carthy gets across to make it four out front. Costa is 15 seconds back.
Costa also drops back as Carthy heads out alone.
Ineos are well in the lead of the peloton now.
Tusveld dropped by the Carthy-Costa group.
Martin has 35 seconds on the peloton, which has really been slimmed down in recent kilometres. Maybe 30-35 men left.
42km to go
Carthy and co slowly making their way across. 20 seconds now.
Bradley Wiggins is on the Eurosport moto during the Giro.
He said that Ciccone greeted him as he worked his way up to the lead group and noted that he looks very at ease.
Up front, Buitrago is the only man with any mountain points. He has one in total, so 108 down on Bouwman...
Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) jumps from the peloton.
Pedrero, Buitrago, and Ciccone still working well together.
43km to go
Carthy, Costa, Tusveld at 33 seconds down on the leaders.
Formolo is back in the peloton, putting on a high pace and his usual pain face. Ineos still up there alongside UAE.
The leaders are Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo), Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious), Antonio Pedrero (Movistar)
The chasers are Rui Costa (UAE Team Emirates), Hugh Carthy (EF Education-EasyPost), Martijn Tusveld (Team DSM)
Carthy is making his way back to Costa. They're 40 seconds behind the leaders.
45km to go
5km to go to the top of the climb.
Ciccone putting the most moves into this group at the front. It looks like he has the best legs so far.
Costa is now 25 seconds down, meanwhile. Is he knocking it off a bit? Or can he just not follow.
Tusveld dropped at the front.
They have Formolo somewhere up the road and Rui Costa too.
Now UAE have come to the front of the peloton. Diego Ulissi and Joรฃo Almeida take it up.
Costa still plugging away behind them.
Buitrago gets back on quickly. Tusveld and Pedrero follow.
Ciccone accelerates again!
47km to go
Costa is 15 seconds down on the lead quartet. 5:45 back to the peloton.
The rest of the break is scattered somewhere in between.
Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo), Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious), Antonio Pedrero (Movistar), Martijn Tusveld (Team DSM) up front now.
Rui Costa (UAE Team Emirates) is chasing. He passes Van der Poel.
Ciccone and co make the junction and the Italian immediately accelerates.
Tusveld hangs on but Van der Poel drops back.
Bouwman is totally done. He's dropped by the chase group.
He looked all set to add to his KOM lead here. Now he's back with the three chasers.
Bouwman is dropped from the lead trio!
Ciccone, Buitrago, and Pedrero are close to making the bridge to the three leaders.
Six minutes back to the peloton.
Pedrero is coming across. Carthy nowhere.
Out front it's Tusveld leading as Bouwman hangs back a little.
20 seconds back to Ciccone-Buitrago.
49km to go
Ciccone and Buitrago leave Pedrero and Carthy behind again.
Carthy and Pedrero make it across to Ciccone and Buitrago.
40 seconds between Bouwman-Van der Poel-Tusveld to Ciccone-Buitrago.
Carthy is trying to get across.
Ciccone and Buitrago attack from the chasing break group.
Ineos certainly aren't going to push the pace today. They seem fully in control, though. Unless someone else, such as Bora-Hansgrohe, take it up, it looks like it'll be a quiet GC day.
50km to go
Ben Swift leads the peloton for Ineos Grenadiers.
Here's the full makeup of the chase group...
Merhawi Kudus, Hugh Carthy (EF Education-EasyPost), Nico Denz (Team DSM), Sam Oomen (Jumbo-Visma), David de la Cruz, Harold Tejada (Astana Qazaqstan), Remy Rochas (Cofidis), Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious), Antonio Pedrero (Movistar), Rui Costa (UAE Team Emirates), Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo), Luca Covili (Bardiani-CSF-Faizanรจ)
Kudus working hard on the front of that group. One minute up to the three leaders now.
Sosa also dropped.
Kudus, Denz, Carthy, Oomen, De la Cruz, Tejada, Rochas, Buitrago, Pedrero, Costa, Ciccone are left in the group.
Mollema, Tesfatsion, Arensman all surprisingly dropped.
52km to go
Only 10 men left in that group.
The pace has gone up on the climb and the chasing group is cutting into the lead. 1:15 now.
Rojas leading the work.
Movistar lead the main breakaway group in the chase.
The gap is only growing to the rest of the break as the leaders start the climb to Verrogne.
The gap to the rest of the break has gone up to 1:20 on this flat stretch now.
57km to go
A look at the upcoming climb as the leaders pass through Aosta.
48 seconds between the three leaders and the rest. 5:10 back to the peloton.
The riders head through the regional capital of Aosta before heading back uphill now.
Van der Poel and Tusveld have made it across to Bouwman at the bottom of the descent!
Three Dutchmen out front.
62km to go
38 seconds for Bouwman now.
Tusveld is the DSM rider with Van der Poel.
Van der Poel leads the breakaway group down the descent. He and a DSM rider are off the front.
The rest of the break are closing in on the descent. Bouwman's advantage is down to 42 seconds now.
Still, he's a good bet to last over the next climb of Verrogne, too.
50 seconds between Bouwman and the rest. Five minutes back to the peloton.
So, Bouwman has 109 points now. Rosa is on 92.
Tesfatsion's 18 points brings his total to 44. He could be one to watch in the final week.
70km to go
Valerio Conti (Astana Qazaqstan) is reportedly out of the race. 158 riders left in the Giro d'Italia.
Tesfatsion and Denz were second and third over the top of the climb.
18 and 12 points for them.
It looks like Van den Berg and Craddock are the only men to drop from the break so far. There are so many riders there that it's hard to tell exactly...
40 points for Bouwman over the first-cat climb of Pila.
He's now in virtual blue with 109 points, 17 clear of Rosa.
He heads into the final metres of the climb.
52 seconds for Bouwman now. He's set to ride into blue here.
A shot of the breakaway before Bouwman (right) took off. Rochas and Carthy to his right.
40 seconds for Bouwman now. 2km to the top of the climb and 40 points for him.
75km to go
Now the pace ups in the break. Bouwman is 30 seconds up the road already.
Bouwman pushes on at the front now. He has a gap on the rest of the break.
Thymen Arensman is the best-placed man in GC out in the breakaway. He's at 11:47 down, actually in 15th place so a decent position after yesterday's carnage.
77km to go
All quiet in the peloton at the moment as Ineos control the pace.
De Bondt is hanging at the rear of the breakaway group.
I think Van den Berg is gone for good.
3:40 back to the peloton now.
I think they're all making it back on, though. It looks like things are back together.
Pedrero, Craddock, De la Cruz out the rear of the group as a result of that. Van den Berg was also struggling out the back.
78km to go
All back together now. The Dutchman wanted to keep the pace high, seemingly.
Van der Poel is now pushing on at the front of the break up this mountain!
Here's the profile of this climb, by the way. 12.3km at 6.9%.
The break are around 7km from the top.
Eight Dutchmen in the break, by far the most dominant nationality in the move.
There are three riders apiece from France, Spain, Colombia, and Italy by my count.
Two Eritreans, then one rider apiece from Belgium, Britain, Hungary, USA, Germany, and Portugal.
81km to go
4:10 between peloton and break now.
More sprinters, including Mark Cavendish, also drop out the back.
Already riders are dropping out the rear of the peloton. Dรฉmare is back there with his teammate Konovalovas.
82km to go
Bouwman is in a great position here in the break. 40 KOM points for him at the top of this climb and he'll be in the maglia azzurra later.
The break begins the climb now, 4:30 up on the peloton.
De Bondt leads the way through the intermediate sprint. Not far to the bottom of the climb to Pila now.
Ineos Grenadiers lead the peloton.
4:10 back to the peloton.
87km to go
The breakaway is:
Mikaรซl Cherel, Nicolas Prodhomme (AG2R Citroรซn)
Mathieu van der Poel, Dries De Bondt (Alpecin-Fenix)
David de la Cruz, Harold Tejada (Astana Qazaqstan)
Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious)
Luca Covili (Bardiani-CSF-Faizanรจ)
Remy Rochas (Cofidis)
Natnael Tesfatsion (Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli)
Hugh Carthy, Merhawi Kudus, Julius van den Berg (EF Education-EasyPost)
Erik Fetter (Eolo-Kometa)
Koen Bouwman, Gijs Leemreize, Sam Oomen (Jumbo-Visma)
Antonio Pedrero, JJ Rojas, Ivร n Sosa (Movistar)
Lawson Craddock (BikeExchange-Jayco)
Thymen Arensman, Nico Denz, Martijn Tusveld (Team DSM)
Giulio Ciccone, Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo)
Rui Costa, Davide Formolo (UAE Team Emirates)
Ok, just noting down the full list of breakaway riders...
2:35 between the large breakaway and peloton now.
Bike changes for Nibali and Carapaz in the peloton. It's calmed down in the peloton as riders take natural breaks and take on food and drink.
Van der Poel is in there but we don't have a full list of riders yet.
97km to go
We have a break! After 80km of racing.
Five out front and then around 20-25 just making the catch.
1:15 from the leaders to the peloton.
At the moment the situation is: group of five out front, a larger group of maybe 20-25 riders, then the peloton.
10 seconds between the first groups, then no set timing back to the peloton.
Ah that timing is way off. He's at the back of the peloton now.
Only 11 seconds between the five leaders and the peloton. Diego Rosa is 1:30 down...
100km to go
We're around 15km to go until the base of the first climb. The first intermediate sprint is coming up before then, though.
Almost 80km of fighting for the breakaway now...
Now around 15 men off the front of the peloton behind that lead quintet.
Rosa is still out the back of the peloton. He's riding behind his team car.
Kudus, Craddock and Arensman are joined in the move by Fetter and Rochas.
Seven or eight men try to go from the peloton in response.
Up front, five men have a small gap. Arensman, Kudus, Craddock are in there.
Not sure what the issue is with Rosa there.
Diego Rosa is out the back of the peloton, meanwhile. A mechanical issue?
103km to go
Joe Dombrowski attacks from the peloton, too.
Thymen Arensman also making a move at the front.
Kudus solo out front, just a few seconds ahead of the peloton.
Holmes, Tejada, Mollema, Kudus all towards the front as riders continue to try and break away.
A downhill run and still more riders are trying to jump away. But now there's something of a stand-off at the front as everybody looks around.
All back together again.
111km to go
Well, the group they attacked from is just part of the peloton again and they're just a few seconds ahead along with a Bardiani rider.
Ciccone, Vansevenant going off the front of the attack group.
The front group looks to be around 15 or so riders here. Not far ahead of the peloton, though.
Ciccone pushing on at the front. A few small hills here for riders to jump away on.
Carthy, Yates, Rosa, Bouwman, Van der Poel, Ciccone all in this latest attack group.
KOM competitors Koen Bouwman and Diego Rosa are up there, though.
More and more riders make the jump off the front. It's barely worth working out all the names because nothing seems to be sticking.
Astana, DSM, Lotto make moves.
Now the lead quintet have been brought back. All together once again...
The average speed of the first hour: 51.9kph
Still 13 seconds to the breakaway riders.
The chase group is just a few seconds up on the peloton and it now has around 10 riders in it. Edoardo Affini and Sam Oomen (Jumbo-Visma) are in there, as is Ignatas Konovalovas (Groupama-FDJ).
12 seconds between the lead group and the peloton.
119km to go
Two Jumbo riders were in there.
Almost 60km of fighting for the breakaway now.
Nope, a few more riders move away from the peloton to join the Covi, De Marchi, Ballerini group.
A few riders get across to the chase group but they're all back in the peloton now.
19 seconds between the leaders and the chasers. 10 seconds back to the peloton from the chasers.
Dรฉmare is at the front of the peloton currently.
Now the pace ups again in the peloton and the gap goes down again...
124km to go
12 seconds between the groups, another 16 back to the peloton now.
Is this going to be the end of the moves? Covi, De Marchi and Ballerini making it across would make it eight up front and eight teams represented...
They have 10 seconds now as another group goes. De Marchi, Covi, Ballerini are on the move. Another 10 seconds back to the peloton.
128km to go
It seems like the break will be brought back soon.
The five up front are losing some time now. It's down to 10 seconds as more attacks fly behind.
Drone Hopper, Astana, Jumbo, EF all have riders at the front of the peloton still trying to attack.
133km to go
Still just 15 seconds for the men out front.
It's a long way to the foot of the first climb, still around 50km to go.
Oier Lazkano (Movistar) stops with some paper/plastic lodged in his rear derailleur.
The pace is still very high so not a great time to have to stop.
Yesterday the breakaway didn't go until the 50km mark, and then Bora-Hansgrohe ended up bringing it back 30km later anyway. We've already passed the 40km mark today.
15 seconds for the leading quintet.
Diego Camargo (EF) leading more riders on the attack.
137km to go
Five up front but not a big gap back to the peloton. Maybe 10 seconds.
Lennard Kรคmna (Bora-Hansgrohe) has made it across now.
Sylvain Moniquet (Lotto), Andrea Vendrame (AG2R), Anthony Perez (Cofidis), Alessandro Tonelli (Bardiani) have a few seconds.
A couple of riders have a few seconds.
Cofidis, Bardiani, AG2R trying now. Almost 40km done and we haven't really been close to a break going...
Natnael Tesfatsion up there, too.
Hugh Carthy on the move now but still nobody is getting any separation from the peloton.
145km to go
Covi up front once again now.
Alpecin, Movistar, Astana... An endless list of teams attempting to get involved at the front.
Bardiani-CSF-Faizanรจ making a move now. Jumbo, QuickStep, Bahrain behind.
A shot of the crash earlier on, with Carapaz involved.
150km to go
And we try again. More attacks still coming at the front...
Now it's all back together again...
152km to go
Ballerini, Magnus Cort, Dario Cataldo, Alessandro De Marchi also up front. More riders coming across, too.
Dries De Bondt (Alpecin-Fenix) among the attackers.
57kph speeds as the riders keep attacking at the front. It's a hard start to the day after yesterday's stage.
A few riders have clipped off the front now, just a few seconds up ahead.
Trek and Bora are also trying.
EF and Israel also active up front.
KOM leader Diego Rosa still up there trying to make the break.
Still no separation between the riders trying to attack and the peloton.
Davide Ballerini up front in the peloton along with a couple of Jumbo riders.
Now it's over for the leading trio.
161km to go
The lead trio are almost caught back.
Trek, QuickStep, Eolo, Alpecin, Jumbo all sending men up front to attack.
Now it's just 12 seconds to Covi, Davy, and Vanhoucke.
A large mix of riders from different teams now trying to push on from the peloton.
166km to go
23 seconds up to the attackers as Carapaz and co get back in.
Three Ineos men dropped back to help Carapaz. The group is just about to rejoin the peloton.
David de la Cruz and Diego Rosa among those attacking now.
It shouldn't be any problem for Carapaz and the rest to get back on. Just a bit of energy wasted early on, though.
Trek-Segafredo lead more attacks from the peloton.
20 seconds from them to the peloton. Another 40 seconds back to the small group with Carapaz who were held up in the crash.
170km to go
Vanhoucke, Covi, and Davy are still pushing out front.
It doesn't look like anybody is seriously hurt after that. Riders all back up and running pretty quickly.
Carapaz falls onto the grass at the side of the road. Maybe 7 or 8 more went down and more were held up. Guillaume Martin, Simon Yates, and Fernando Gaviria were also involved.
A crash in the peloton! Maglia rosa Carapaz is involved.
They're around 10 seconds up on the peloton as riders still try to get away behind.
Vanhoucke and Covi are joined by Groupama-FDJ man Clement Davy.
174km to go
Harm Vanhoucke (Lotto Soudal) on the attack now. Alessandro Covi (UAE Team Emirates) with him.
Maglia azzurra Diego Rosa is also among those fighting up front, unsurprisingly.
More riders try to make it out front. Arnaud Dรฉmare is up there!
177km to go
The flag drops and the attacks start! Matt Holmes (Lotto Soudal) on the move straight away.
We're just waiting for the riders to get through to km0 and then see the battle for today's breakaway.
And here we go! The riders have rolled out to start the neutral zone.
Moments away from the start now...
A good reception for Carapaz as he leaves the bus and heads to the start of the stage this morning.
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Of course, we have a new race leader today in Richard Carapaz. "The last week will be very competitive and pretty complicated," he said after stage 14.
Carapaz in leader's maglia rosa starts a new Giro d'Italia for Ineos Grenadiers
Under 10 minutes to the start of the roll out now. The riders will roll through a 4.6km neutral zone before the flag drops and the stage gets underway.
Before we begin stage 15 – there's around 15 minutes to go before the riders roll out – why not check out our rider of the day from stage 14?
Wilco Kelderman took the title for his long stint on the front of the GC group, and as a representative of Bora-Hansgrohe's work in shaping the stage.
Giro d'Italia rider of the day: Kelderman helps Bora-Hansgrohe blow stage 14 apart
Here's what they're all fighting for (well, not all of them at this point)...
"On the day when anything could happen, almost everything did. For two weeks, the favourites for this Giro had been measured in their approach, carefully meting out their efforts and limiting their exposure. Then, in the space of 147 dizzying kilometres in the hills around Turin, the previous logic of the Giro seemed to collapse upon itself."
Those were Barry Ryan's words on yesterday's tumultuous stage 14. He spoke to Domenico Pozzovivo, Pello Bilbao, Simon Yates, and Guillaume Martin about the stage and today's mountain test.
The first-category climbs of Pila and Verrogne offer up 40-18-12-9-6-4-2-1 points while the second-category summit finish at Cogne offers 18-8-6-4-2-1 points.
A maximum of 98 KOM points on offer today, then.
Diego Rosa (Eolo-Kometa) remains in blue after taking nine points yesterday. He's on 92 points to Koen Bouwman (Jumbo-Visma) on 69.
GC men Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers) are next on 62 and 56 points, while the Bora-Hansgrohe duo of Lennard Kรคmna and Wilco Kelderman, and Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) are next on 43, 36, and 30 points.
Who will make it out front to battle for the massive number of points on offer today?
The riders will take on 90km of mostly flat roads (though heading slightly uphill all the time) before they hit any of the big mountains though.
We should see a big fight for the breakaway with plenty of riders hoping to battle it out for the maglia azzurra KOM jersey during that long run to the first climb of Pila.
Here's a look at the climbs on the menu today. Click here for a zoomed-in view
The action was non-stop yesterday, with a 50km battle for a breakaway which lasted around 30km before Bora-Hansgrohe blew the race apart, then a long GC fight over hilly circuit on the final 70km.
Today the riders have to head to the Alps and take on three mountains, including two hard first-category climbs. Depending on how teams approach today it could be carnage once again...
If you needed a reminder of what went on yesterday, here's our stage 14 report...
Giro d'Italia: Simon Yates captures solo win on stage 14 in Turin
45 minutes to the start in Rivarolo Canavese and the remaining 159 riders are signing in for stage 15 this morning.
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of stage 15 of the Giro d'Italia as the race heads into the Alps. Have you recovered from the non-stop action of yesterday's race to Turin yet?
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