Giro d'Italia 2022

The 2022 Giro d'Italia has arrived with 21 challenging stages ahead for riders across the world as they return to one of the most prestigious events in ...

The Colombian simply had to avoid incident and post a solid time to triumph. Amazon Prime is £7.99 per month but can be accessed with a 30-day free trial. Riders must conquer hills and valleys, forests and towns in their bid to wear the crown. However, 2020 champion Tao Geoghegan Hart is missing through illness and reigning champion Egan Bernal won't feature due to injury. You can unsubscribe at any time. You can tune in for a full highlights show at 7pm on Quest TV during each night of the Giro d'Italia 2022.

Richard Carapaz, of the Ineos Grenadiers, is the favourite for the first of this year's Grand Tours.

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A rundown of the riders who gained and lost time at the Giro today.

Van der Poel leads by four seconds in the general classification thanks to the finish line time bonus, with Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious) lying in third place at six seconds. GC men Wilco Kelderman (Bora-Hansgrohe), Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers), and Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) made the right side of a split to finish inside the top seven, the trio now at 10 seconds to Van der Poel. Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) is the first leader of the 2022 Giro d'Italia after prevailing in a chaotic run to the line on the hilltop finish in Visegrád, Hungary.

The Giro d'Italia peloton will race out of Heroes' Square in Budapest on Friday before switching to Sicily next week for a mountainous 21-stage adventure ...

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A punchy finish to stage one of the Giro d'Italia saw the superstar favourite make an immediate impact.

Thymen Arensman (DSM) had attracted some hype following his podium finish at the Tour of the Alps, but didn’t have those legs today, and lost 19 seconds to the leading group. But in the short term, there’s still an outside chance he could exchange the white jersey he won today as the race’s best young rider for the pink jersey. There was a chilling sense of déjà vu when Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) hit the deck on the finishing straight. But they were able to finish, as was every other rider who started, Despite being the favourite, Van der Poel had expressed his concern that the final climb might not be difficult enough for him, and so his Alpecin-Fenix team set about setting a fast pace early on its lower slopes. He’ll now look to defend the pink jersey in tomorrow’s time trial stage.

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Watch Van der Poel take the first pink jersey ahead of Girmay after Ewan crashes out of contention for the uphill sprint.

Van der Poel claimed the first pink jersey of the 2022 Giro d'Italia in the two-way battle, which looked set to be a three-way contest before Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) crashed within sight of the line. Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious) took third, ahead of Magnus Cort (EF Education-EasyPost), in the stage which ended at the hilltop fort at Visegrád with a final 5.5km at 4.2 per cent. It was an action packed finale to the opening stage of the Giro d'Italia in Hungary, which ended with a tight battle to the line in the uphill sprint between Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) and Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert).

Rouleur previews stage three of the 2022 Giro d'Italia, set to be a battle between the star sprinters like Mark Cavendish and Caleb Ewan.

Winning that jersey requires consistency rather than sporadic victories, and the Italian tends to be a rider who is normally up there but rarely wins, famously going seven editions before finally winning his first Giro d’Italia stage last year. Thankfully for the sprinters, they won't be leaving Hungary without this one chance of battling for a stage win in a bunch finish. Unlike the uphill bunch finish on the opening stage won by Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix), this one will be for the pure sprinters, with a whole set of different names set to contest for the stage wins than puncheurs and climbers who featured that day.

Follow our live updates as the Giro d'Italia continues for Stage 2 in Budapest for what will be a very short and punchy individual time trial.

My legs were full of lactic at the end and it really hurt – but it’s incredible after the yellow jersey to wear the pink.” Girmay, the Eritrean trailblazer who became the first African to win a cobbled classic earlier this spring, looked destined to write another glorious chapter in his remarkable rise. If the whole world expected it, Mathieu van der Poel still (Alpecin-Fenix) had to deliver the goods.

Watch the Giro d'Italia 2022 Stage 1 highlights as Mathieu van der Poel storms to a stunning victory in what turns out to be a dramatic finish.