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Healy claims second at the summit of the Bordala behind Davide Gabburo, strengthening his provisional overall lead in the mountains ranking.
Jake Stewart (Groupama-FDJ), working for race leader Bruno Armirail, is sharing policing duties on the front of the peloton with Affini. Just under three minutes the gap on the lower slopes of the Bordala.
Healy is just four points ahead of current KoM leader Davide Bais, incidentally, on the provisional overall ranking for that classification after taking top points on the Santa Barbara, but will surely be on the hunt for more points on this next third cat. climb, the Passo Bordala.
Derek Gee (Israel-Premier Tech), in the break of the day for the umpteenth time today, has a mechanical.
There's a very short descent off the Passo di Santa Barbara and then it's onto the Passo Bordala. (Cat. 3: 4.5km at 6.7%)
Ben Healy (EF Education-Easy Post) leads over the top of the Santa Barbara and moves into the virtual lead of the mountains classification.
No major changes as yet on the first category Santa Barbara. Edoardo Affini (Jumbo-Visma) keeps things going steady at the front of the bunch, Nicolas Dalla Valle (Corratec) pulling on the front of the break. About two kilometres to go to the top.
132 kilometres to go
3:38 the gap between the break and the peloton
Pronskiy has been brought back by the way by the way and the break remains loosely together with about four kilometres to go on the climb. Jumbo-Visma keep a watching brief on the front of the peloton, but with 134 kilometres to go, nobody's going mad yet.
And here's a panoramic picture of the peloton early on stage 16 and the mountains beyond. Nice day/place for a bike ride.
A profile courtesy of RCS of the current climb
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Onto the Santa Barbara climb now, and Vadim Pronskiy (Astana-Qazaqstan) makes a move from the break.
It's not just dry today, it's warm: reports of 28 degrees in the valleys and 24 degrees atop of the Bondone.
First up is Passo di Santa Barbara (Cat. 1: 12.7km at 8.3%).
The climbs are fast approaching, mind, and this massive breakaway group could well disintegrate shortly. Jumbo-Visma and Groupama-FDJ are also chasing.
140 kilometres to go
So the 26 riders ahead are:
Aurélien and Valentin Paret-Peintre (AG2R-Citroën)
Jack Haig and Jonathan Milan (Bahrain Victorious)
Thomas Champion and Jonathan Lastra (Cofidis)
Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost)
Nicolas Dalla Valle, Veljko Stojnic (Corratec)
Davide Gaburri, Filippo Magli, Marin Marcellusi and Alessandro Tonelli (Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè)
Salvatore Puccio and Ben Swift (Ineos Grenadiers)
Derek Gee (Israel-Premier Tech)
Carlos Verona (Movistar)
Michael Hepburn and Filippo Zana (Jayco-AIUIa)
Toms Skujins (Trek-Segafredo)
Diego Ulissi (UAE-Team Emirates)
Christian Scaroni and Vadim Pronskiy (Astana Qazaqstan)
Cesare Benedetti and Patrick Konrad (Bora)
Mattia Bais (Eolo-Kometa)
And the gap is 3:49
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The nine counter-attackers are closing in on the 17 so pretty soon there'll be a front group of 26.
Meanwhile there's a counter-attacking group of nine riders trying to get across to the 17 ahead and the peloton is sitting up.
Here's the names of the 17 riders ahead:
Aurélien and Valentin Paret-Peintre (AG2R-Citroën)
Jack Haig and Jonathan Milan (Bahrain Victorious)
Jonathan Lastra (Cofidis)
Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost)
Marin Marcellusi and Alessandro Tonelli (Bardiani)
Salvatore Puccio and Ben Swift (Ineos Grenadiers)
Derek Gee (Israel-Premier Tech)
Carlos Verona (Movistar)
Michael Hepburn and Filippo Zana (Jayco-AIUIa)
Toms Skujins (Trek-Segafredo)
Diego Ulissi (UAE-Team Emirates)
Christian Scaroni (Astana Qazaqstan)
The 17 have a gap of 41 seconds on a chasing group of nine riders, but with the radio coverage being so poor, there's no indication yet of the gap on the main peloton.
158 kilometres to go
Jack Haig (Bahrain Victorious) and Aurélien Paret-Peintre (AG2R-Citroën) are the two most dangerous racers in terms of GC in the front group of 17.
Another group of 17 riders goes clear, reportedly including EF racer Ben Healy, two Ineos Grenadiers riders, Filippo Zana (Jayco-AIUIa), Derek Gee (Israel-Premier Tech), Jonathan Milan and Jasha Sutterlin (Bahrain Victorious), Tom Skujins (Trek-Segafredo) and Valentin Paret-Peintre (AG2R-Citroen). Exact info is tricky to come by, though, given the race is heading through numerous tunnels as it winds alongside the shores of Lake Garda and radio coverage ranges from poor to non-existent.
Meanwhile at the front end of the now re-formed peloton, one attack after another is going off the front, the latest including Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) and Davide Formolo (UAE Team Emirates). But as yet none have stuck.
The two big groups, which saw riders like Pavel Sivakov (Ineos Grenadiers), Kuss (Jumbo-Visma), Hugh Carthy (EF Education-Easy Post) and Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) caught behind, have come back together.
The gap between the main peloton and the second group, the latter containing about 50 riders, is roughly 25 seconds as they speed alongside Lake Garda.
The bunch has split in the fast start and the maglia rosa, Bruno Armirail (Groupama-FDJ) is part of a big second group of riders who've been caught behind.
Here's a photo of Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) prior to the start of stage 16. He's one of the several GC contenders who could well have a big say in the outcome of today's ultra-difficult high mountains trek.
185 kilometres to go
The trio of early attackers have been brought back.
De Plus and Kuss making the way back to the peloton through the team cars. Neither appear to be seriously affected by that crash.
Crash for Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma), Laurens De Plus (Ineos Grenadiers) and Lorenzo Fortunato (Eolo-Kometa) at the back of the peloton. All three well-known as climbers, and who are expected to play a big role in a mountains stage like today's.
And we have our first break: Kristian Sbaragli (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Davide Gabburo (Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè) and Christian Scaroni (Astana Qazaqstan). The gap is only 15 seconds, mind, and Trek-Segafredo and Israel-Premier Tech in particular seem determined to bring the trio of Italians back.
Stop the presses: for a second straight stage, it's not raining today in the 2023 Giro d'Italia, one of the most waterlogged in recent history. Though there's always another six hours for that to change...
And stage 16 of the 2023 Giro d'Italia has started.
With 5,852 metres of vertical climbing, the most of any of the 2023 Giro's 21 stages, there's only one way to describe today's 203 kilometre mountainous trek: very hard. The full list of climbs is as follows:
Km 76.8: Passo di Santa Barbara (Cat. 1: 12.7km at 8.3%)
Km 84.2: Passo Bordala (Cat. 3: 4.5km at 6.7%)
Km 116.4: Matassone (Cat 2: 11.3km at 5.5%)
Km 153.5: Serrada (Cat 2: 17.7km at 5.5%)
Km 203: Monte Bondone (Cat 1: 21.4km at 6.7%)
And in the final minutes before stage 16 gets underway, here's a reminder of our race leaders:
Overall leader: Bruno Armirail (Groupama-FDJ)
Points: Jonathan Milan (Bahrain Victorious)
Mountains: Davide Bais (Eolo-Kometa)
Best Young Rider: Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates)
There are set to be at least three DNSs in an already seriously depleted Giro d'Italia peloton this morning:
Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier (Trek-Segafredo)
Simon Clarke (Israel-Premier Tech)
Davide Ballerini (Soudal-QuickStep)
Ghebreigzabhier has quit because of the after-effects of a crash, Clarke has been fighting illness for a couple of days and Ballerini is also sick. This brings the total of abandons in this year's Giro so far to 47.
The big news from the Giro's second rest day was Mark Cavendish's announcement he'll be retiring at the end of the season. Stephen Farrand has an in-depth piece on Cavendish and the implications of that news for what are now set to b the final months of his career here: It’s not forever – Mark Cavendish and a last dance we should savour
You can read our full preview of the stage, courtesy of my colleague Barry Ryan, and exactly why it's so important here: High stakes, tight margins – Can Monte Bondone break Giro d'Italia deadlock? Stage 16 preview
Racing is set to get underway shortly, at 1105 local time, on the first key stage of the final week of the 2023 Giro.
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