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00:00 So they've been racing in inverted commas for one hour, eight minutes and 55 seconds.
00:05 And now, Jumbo Visma show off the Magliorosa to the crowd that has gathered here at the finish line.
00:10 As the VIP stands begin to fill up, the race is in Rome.
00:15 Quite a lot of street furniture there to contend with.
00:18 That's it, here's that little right turn.
00:26 There it is, St. Peter's Cathedral in the heart of the Vatican.
00:30 It was indeed Diego Sevilla and Martin Marcellucci who were trying to get across,
00:36 but they've definitely dropped away.
00:38 Buoys just looking around to check where those that duo are actually,
00:42 how far behind they are and whether or not it might be worth easing up to allow them to get across.
00:46 But thinking better of it as well.
00:49 I just saw a rider on his own in what looked like the Israel kit,
00:53 moving up the outside, maybe to do exactly just that.
00:56 Slightly out of his hands now because he hasn't made the breakaway.
01:01 No.
01:01 So even if he were to do that, I think it's a Movistar rider who's just moving up.
01:04 An exceptionally good tour for Groupama FDG.
01:08 They would have dearly loved that stage win.
01:09 That hasn't come.
01:10 As we get our first rear shot of the road just kicking up ahead.
01:15 It gives you a sense that it's a proper little dig.
01:17 It did look quite steep, yeah.
01:18 To become a point of interest, especially in the final circuit.
01:23 The gap stabilizes at 24 seconds.
01:25 He's been in the race, Carlos Fedorovna.
01:28 He certainly has.
01:29 So 3k to go the final time around.
01:31 But 3k to go now for Tom Skunc to pick up 10 points in the intermediate sprint standings.
01:36 And that would move him on to 47 points.
01:38 One point behind Derek G with one more sprint remaining.
01:42 Through the flamaroos and there it is.
01:44 At pace.
01:47 So one kilometer to go for Tom Skunc to make a giant stride in the intermediate sprint standing.
01:53 But don't forget, as you pointed out quite rightly earlier,
01:56 it's an opportunity to stand on the podium in Rome at the end of the Giro d'Italia.
02:00 There we go.
02:01 Essentially, he's utterly gifted.
02:02 This man's had to work very hard.
02:03 But the 10 points has closed the gap now to one point in that classification.
02:07 Yeah, 47 plays 50 at the top of those standings.
02:11 And that means that only Tom Skunc and Derek G can win that competition now.
02:18 Everyone else is too far down.
02:18 And there, here we go.
02:19 We have a lead out now for Derek G sitting on the wheel of his teammate there, Stevie Williams.
02:24 Being leading out Derek G.
02:27 And Dan Hull, by the looks of it, is going to try and out sprint.
02:30 Out sprint Derek G.
02:33 So Trek Segafredo playing quite a mean trick here.
02:36 Perfectly legitimate trying to deny him these two points.
02:38 But Derek G, gamely, is he going to hold on for the points?
02:42 It's tight on the line.
02:43 Wow! What a sprint for the minor placings.
02:45 I think Derek G is going to have to settle for just one point there.
02:47 Beaten over the line by Alex...
02:49 Hull, I think it was Dan Hull.
02:53 Yeah, Dan Hull.
02:54 Just forgot his first name there.
02:55 Had a brief little moment.
02:57 But yeah, just one point for Derek G there.
02:59 So he moves to 49 points.
03:00 I can't see them trying to chase.
03:02 It'll have to be a big effort to get the whole team on the front to bring those three riders.
03:06 But it'll be hard now with 34 seconds.
03:07 Pantheon is one of the most remarkable buildings I've ever stepped inside.
03:11 Especially on a day like this when you enter the gloom, the darkness of the Pantheon.
03:16 And you can see the light streaming in from that circular hole.
03:19 That's slightly misleading, that graphic.
03:25 Those points relate to the Maglia Ciclamino, which is not the competition we're talking about.
03:30 We're talking about the intermediate sprint standings.
03:32 Now where Skunc picks up 10 points.
03:34 6-3, 2-1 for Derek G.
03:36 So it's a little bit confusing.
03:37 But if you've been watching for the last three weeks, you will be understanding that.
03:41 And yeah, that's the reshuffling in the Maglia Ciclamino.
03:45 Where Skunc moves up to fifth place.
03:46 But look at the margin of victory there for Jonathan Milan against Derek G.
03:50 Picked up a few points there, G.
03:52 Four points.
03:52 But barely made a dent on Jonathan Milan's haul of 215.
03:56 So it's getting a little bit complicated.
04:01 But only one more sprint.
04:02 The gap at 27 seconds.
04:04 And I can't see any of the Israel Primatech riders just yet moving through the front.
04:09 But if they are minded to do something, they need to do it soon.
04:13 As Bouet drives our top gear down here.
04:15 Absolutely flying.
04:16 Again, it's beautifully flowing corners.
04:20 Bike change.
04:23 Yeah.
04:23 That's his first bike.
04:26 They've both got numbers on.
04:29 It's interesting.
04:29 Yeah.
04:30 Doesn't normally happen.
04:30 No, it's really unusual.
04:31 Yeah, Starnaman.
04:34 Coffin is also putting somebody on the front as well.
04:36 Or just sat on the wheel of the American.
04:38 Yeah.
04:38 He'll be looking after Simone Consoni.
04:41 I wouldn't say came close the other day.
04:42 But it was his best ride, wasn't it?
04:44 Yeah.
04:45 On the stage won by Dan Nesey.
04:46 Well, we've lost the measurement on the screen.
04:50 But I think they're a good 30 seconds, if not more, up the road.
04:53 They're coming towards the finishing arch now.
04:55 And Tom Skurinich has got 13.6 kilometers to go to seal the deal in the intermediate sprint standings.
05:03 They all understand that Tom Skurinich is in a separate race of his own.
05:06 Although, of course, if this breakaway in the unlikely event were to make it to the line,
05:10 they would all be racing against one another.
05:13 But for now, the collaboration is firmly understood amongst the trio of riders,
05:18 including Bouet, Cesare Benedetti and Tom Skurinich.
05:22 I'm wondering if Israel Primatech mistakenly thought that the classification wouldn't be raced.
05:30 It just seems really odd.
05:35 If the fact that they didn't put anybody near the front,
05:38 and then they did try and shut it down in desperation,
05:41 suggests that they clearly won a ride, but they've just missed the boat.
05:44 And maybe didn't think that Tom Skurinich would attack.
05:47 It was perfectly, I mean, on those intermediate classifications,
05:51 it's open season, including the points.
05:53 That the one classification that on the odd occasion hasn't been settled
05:59 and gone down to the final sprints is the points classification.
06:02 And there is Derek Gee right to the back.
06:06 And that tells you everything that you need to know.
06:09 He is relinquishing any chance of taking the intermediate sprints classification.
06:14 And it's all down to Tom Skurinich.
06:15 And he will undoubtedly clinch that competition.
06:18 The 27.2kms to go is when it will pass from Derek Gee to Tom Skurinich,
06:26 the leadership in that competition.
06:27 Unless, for whatever reason, another team gets to the front and rides this down.
06:31 But I can't see why they would.
06:32 Cesare Benedetti on the front.
06:34 Maxime Bouet on the back.
06:36 Benedetti, 35 years of age now.
06:38 Approaching that kind of age where you refer to him as a veteran.
06:42 Interesting career.
06:43 - The hole in the Pantheon. - Oh, we can look through.
06:47 - That gave me vertigo. - Yeah, a bit of a mesh there, isn't there?
06:50 So many birds dropping through.
06:52 As Dirk Dombrovski continues to drive hard on the front.
06:56 Teams weren't riding that one down that is just almost organically.
07:00 And, you know, without any rhyme or reason,
07:02 it did come down to something much more feasible to ride across.
07:05 But there we go.
07:06 They're at the back having kind of visibly and obviously
07:10 signed off on their intention of trying to ride for that competition.
07:13 But yeah, just on that shot of the first 30 or 40 riders in the peloton,
07:16 you can see Mark Cavan just about 20 riders back in the national jersey,
07:19 but nobody from Israel Premiertek.
07:22 And we're coming into the last 1500 metres.
07:24 - What, 2kms now. - The gap's gone out again.
07:26 Yeah.
07:26 So we're just making sure he's in a good position.
07:30 Yeah, he does need to finish first.
07:33 Yes, that's it.
07:34 He could definitely do with finishing first.
07:36 And if he does, which he's about to do,
07:37 he's going to win the intermediate sprint standings.
07:39 Yeah, 21 seconds is the gap.
07:42 A bunch pretty much out of sight,
07:44 although they might have them in sight on this straight.
07:46 But yeah, Skoin's sealed the deal there.
07:48 And the side effect of that is that Derek G is going to finish in second place
07:56 in the intermediate sprint standings,
07:57 the overall breakaway prize,
07:58 the King of the Mountains competition
08:00 and the Maglia Ciclamino competition.
08:03 But has won the non-existent combination jersey.
08:06 Yeah.
08:07 And still, although we don't know,
08:08 we don't know what the information is,
08:10 could win the competitivity prize.
08:12 And I think he'd be one of the riders,
08:13 one of the handful of riders that should be in with a chout there.
08:17 Yeah, it'd be him, Ben Healey.
08:19 Exactly.
08:20 I mean, it'd be Champion even.
08:21 Champion, but I think it's more race-witted.
08:24 I mean, Champion has been in breaks,
08:26 but he hasn't shaped the outcome of stages, has he?
08:28 Where G has, Healey has.
08:32 They have returned to the centre of Rome.
08:34 It's a confirmation that Tom Scrooge got his wheel in front of the others
08:37 over the final intermediate sprint
08:39 after 21 stages of the Giro d'Italia.
08:43 Sometimes earlier through, not through choice,
08:46 through a lack of another contractor heading your way.
08:49 Oh, this is a glut of Roman beauty, isn't it, that we're witnessing today.
08:56 And on your right, you can see almost a summary,
08:58 the greatest hits of Rome scrolling through your screens,
09:01 while on the left, we've got the breakaway on those very streets now,
09:05 holding on to an advantage that's shrunk to just 15 seconds
09:08 with just over 20 kilometres to go.
09:10 The Colosseum has seen many a thrilling spectacle down the years.
09:14 And just outside, I think we're about to be offered up
09:18 one final thrill at the Giro d'Italia,
09:21 which has offered us all sorts of drama over the last three weeks.
09:24 Some of it chilling, some of it frightening,
09:27 a lot of it breathtaking, some of it edge-of-the-seat stuff.
09:31 And the Bunch Sprint, in all its majesty,
09:33 is one of the most thrilling spectacles in road racing.
09:37 It's a slow burn, but when it comes, well, you know the score,
09:39 it's going to be fast and furious.
09:41 And we are heading, as we always were,
09:44 to that almost inevitable conclusion
09:45 that the fast men who've battled their way through the mountains
09:48 are presented with one huge prize, the honour of winning in Rome.
09:52 The breakaway.
09:54 Yeah, that was a Meyerhofer on the back there.
09:57 He's already done a lot of work.
09:59 Japanese national champion Arashiro moving up
10:02 to support the Bahrain-Victorious outfit
10:04 who are riding for the Maglia Ciclamino today.
10:06 And Primoz Roglic himself, the Maglia Rosa,
10:09 is still vigilantly being kept towards the front of the Bunch
10:12 just in case anything untoward,
10:14 or to prevent anything untoward from happening to him.
10:17 Yeah, I just saw Pascal Ackermann being dropped
10:19 into about sixth or seventh position as well.
10:21 If their little powerful group went clear
10:25 with the right combination, it could go to the finish.
10:28 So the best plan, I think, for the sprint teams
10:30 is just to let this little group dangle
10:32 and keep the status quo the same.
10:33 No representation from Astana, as we saw before.
10:39 And they've stripped out the time gap,
10:41 but I don't think it's much more than 15 seconds now.
10:44 Oh, is that a move coming up on the left-hand side?
10:46 That's Magnus Court.
10:47 Is that an attack?
10:48 It looks like an attack.
10:49 It is an attack.
10:51 Magnus Court took quite a while to get there.
10:53 But Magnus Court, as you outlined, as you guessed,
10:56 one of the riders in a team really shorn of the fast sprinter,
10:59 who might as well try and go clear,
11:00 but he's gone a long, long way out.
11:02 He's gone a long way out, and he's gone at one of the faster sections
11:05 than what it might have been.
11:05 Well, again, he's made that call.
11:07 He's now dropping down the other side,
11:09 opened up a little bit of a gap.
11:10 Remember, there is that group out in front.
11:13 Remember, there's only two riders riding now,
11:17 as Magnus Court is going to...
11:18 He's rocketed across the gap now.
11:20 He'll take the belt.
11:22 And this is like it's a solo bid for glory.
11:24 I don't think the others in that group will be able to get on his wheel.
11:27 Might just rip past them, Magnus Court, the Great Dane.
11:30 But that's an ambitious move.
11:32 And questionably, you have to wonder whether it was the right one.
11:35 He just sits on the wheel to allow himself a little bit of respite.
11:38 But if he's got any chance of success, he needs to go again.
11:40 He certainly does.
11:41 Haig still in the front.
11:44 Barona just peering past the Australian,
11:46 just keeping an eye on that bumpy road surface,
11:50 the cobbles that take us through the finish here.
11:52 Well, the bell rings now for the peloton,
11:56 for Primoz Roglic and for the sprinters.
11:59 13.6 measly kilometres around Rome.
12:02 That's all that remains of the 2023 Giro d'Italia.
12:06 Four riders with an advantage of no more than two seconds,
12:09 as Carlos Barona brings the sprinters teams and the GC favourites
12:13 through the finishing line for the last lap.
12:16 The punt over one of these climbs, trying to take 14 seconds back.
12:19 He's thinking, "Well, they're going to be...
12:20 All they've got to do is let the wheel go.
12:21 You know how good at time trialling is Geraint Thomas is,
12:24 and now that's not going to happen."
12:25 I was... Yeah, one percent of me was wondering there, I must admit.
12:28 As Arashido takes it up now for Bahrain-Victoria.
12:30 So it's the first sprinters team really to pick it up now
12:33 and lift it to a pace you'd associate more acutely
12:36 with the sharp end of a sprint lead out.
12:38 This is it. He goes up a notch now.
12:40 Arashido is going to do a short turn here.
12:42 He can't survive at this pace for too much longer.
12:44 Now, this is almost a terminal.
12:45 You can just tell the effort he's putting in.
12:46 Sabatori Pucci on his wheel actually drives through.
12:49 It's only a short turn by the Japanese champion,
12:51 but a good one.
12:52 And definitely a big spike in power for that man
12:54 as he drops away.
12:55 Balcamolama now on the left-hand side with Uhl on his wheel.
12:58 They might be looking after Uhl for the sprint actually.
13:00 It's an interesting one, that one.
13:02 Balcamolama looks round over his shoulder.
13:03 Affini in the centre.
13:04 Now Cavendish in the vacuum in the middle,
13:07 slots in to the wheel.
13:08 It looks like it's almost like, "What wheel do I choose now?"
13:10 The gap is being shut there by Primoz Roglic.
13:12 Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it?
13:14 We've got Ineos Grunit in first and second on the left
13:16 and the right-hand side of the road, respectively.
13:18 Big Laurence Rex has got Arna Marit on his wheel.
13:21 The Belgian, a real touch, pinch point there.
13:23 All riders round it safely, I think,
13:24 but that was a potential hazard there.
13:26 And that is why the first and second place riders
13:30 and GC are right at the front there alongside one another.
13:32 Two kilometres to go until their GC positions are safe,
13:37 come what may.
13:37 It is.
13:39 Jaco Alula looking after Michael Matthews,
13:40 who sat in second.
13:41 Derry G, Derry G, Derry G,
13:42 winding it up the Canadian.
13:44 So this is the expected long-range attack from the Canadian.
13:48 And he's at it again.
13:49 What a pugnacious rider he is.
13:51 This is a real long shot, but G is strong
13:54 and he's taking a rider from Aiolo Comete with him.
13:56 Here by Geraint Thomas.
13:57 Well, it's not just a fantastic gesture,
13:59 it's also a terrifyingly strong gesture.
14:02 Geraint Thomas can sit on the front now for several hundred metres
14:05 and that's good news for Luis Leon Sanchez
14:07 and it's great news for Mark Cavendish,
14:09 who's slotted here in fourth place on the wheel of Fernando Gaviria.
14:12 They're all lined out on Cavendish's wheel now.
14:14 Well, Geraint Thomas has got one of the biggest engines in the sport
14:16 and he's lining things out here with 1,500 metres to go.
14:20 The Coliseum is looming just at the top of this road
14:22 as everybody else fights for the wheel of the Flying Welshman,
14:25 who's absolutely riveting it up this drag.
14:28 And still he persists, Geraint Thomas.
14:30 What a lead-out this is.
14:31 Jascha Zutterlin was trying to get to the front,
14:33 can't get to the front at the moment.
14:34 Still trying and as Thomas finally, finally fades
14:38 with the Flamm Rouge yielding now,
14:40 he yields to Jascha Zutterlin
14:42 and now Baron Victorius have the front of the race.
14:45 Out of the saddle up the track.
14:46 This little kicker, Michael Matthews in a good position.
14:48 It is still Luis Leon Sanchez.
14:50 Where is Mark Cavendish?
14:51 Mark Cavendish is slotted onto the wheel of Gaviria.
14:53 On the left-hand side is Jonathan Milan in the Mallea Cicliminos.
14:56 They're round the corner.
14:57 They're going to go into the shadow of the Coliseum now, Ned,
14:59 with one kilometre to go.
15:01 There's a battle now under the Flamm Rouge
15:03 for the wheel of Jonathan Milan
15:04 and at the moment Mark Cavendish is fighting tooth and nail to get it.
15:07 Cavendish alongside Consani.
15:09 Cavendish latches onto Milan's wheel.
15:11 Milan moving up on the left-hand side of the road,
15:13 waiting patiently as the lead-out for Fernando Gaviria
15:17 is reaching its terminal velocity.
15:18 Pasqualon looks round, sees Milan.
15:21 Cavendish locked onto the wheel of the big man,
15:23 the smallest sprinter on the wheel of the biggest sprinter
15:26 with 600 metres to go.
15:27 Pasqualon still leading out Milan.
15:29 Gaviria and Jake Stewart right in the mix.
15:31 So it's Pasqualon, Stewart and down the left-hand side of the road
15:34 Ryan Gibbons is looking for Pascal Ackermann.
15:38 Ackermann alongside Cavendish.
15:40 Milan going.
15:40 Cavendish though, picks the wheel of Fernando Gaviria.
15:43 Up the right-hand side of the road.
15:44 It's Gaviria from Cavendish.
15:46 Cavendish comes off the wheel of the Colombian.
15:49 Cavendish at the front.
15:50 Cavendish at the last.
15:52 A crash behind but Cavendish blasts away to victory.
15:57 Stage 21 for Mark Cavendish and he absolutely trounced the field.
16:03 Well, what an absolutely sensational win for Mark Cavendish.
16:08 He got the wheel that he wanted but Ned,
16:11 when he opened things up, he had several lengths.
16:14 He absolutely blew the doors off the rest of the field here for win number 17.
16:19 He's never left the Giro without a stage win.
16:22 And the record is complete.
16:23 Magnificent.
16:24 Even Jake Stewart there, his opponent in the sprint congratulating him.
16:29 High emotions in Rome.
16:31 Cavendish has done it.
16:32 No sprinter has doubled up at the Giro.
16:34 He's battled for three weeks for this moment, the British national champion.
16:39 Cavendish is back.
16:41 This was the race where he announced his retirement.
16:46 And at the back there, they picked themselves up from another high-speed crash.
16:52 Ackermann looks like he was delayed or even down in that crash.
16:55 I do hope everyone's all right.
16:57 It seems as if they are but at the front of the race,
17:00 Mr. Impossible just continues to write history.
17:04 Absolutely fantastic.
17:07 37 years of age.
17:08 What a win by Mark Cavendish.
17:09 We need, well, can't wait to see the slow-motion replay there.
17:12 But he locked and loaded.
17:13 What a turn that was by Geraint Thomas.
17:16 It's Patrick Conrad, I think, has come down in the crash there.
17:19 Loose goes Postelberger as well.
17:20 Everyone's okay.
17:22 Yeah, it looks like it.
17:23 By what we can see.
17:24 As Mark Cavendish now finds his teammates who are so heavily involved in that.
17:27 And by the way, that subplot of Geraint Thomas helping him out, his old mate, his old teammate.
17:33 That was extraordinary.
17:35 It was.
17:36 What he did, he just kept the bunch lined out.
17:38 He wasn't a direct lead-out, but he just kept that pace high.
17:41 So there wasn't that movement down the left and the right.
17:44 And it was absolutely perfect.
17:45 It really, really was.
17:46 It's Pascal Ackermann.
17:48 He's bloodied and bruised, but he's up and riding.
17:51 Meyerhofer also there as well, just offering a little bit of assistance.
17:54 Never good to see.
17:55 Yeah.
17:55 Ryan Gibbons alongside him, his lead-out man, shaking the head.
17:57 Pascal Ackermann banged his right elbow there.
18:00 He's bleeding.
18:01 I hope he's all right.
18:01 Here's the replay.
18:03 Here's where they're sprinting off.
18:04 It's Gaviria again went first on the right-hand side here, Ned.
18:07 Milan on the left.
18:09 And there's a lot for Marc to chase here.
18:11 But look at this.
18:12 Cavendish gets into the street.
18:13 But look at that acceleration.
18:14 Nobody else can touch him.
18:15 I mean, is it a different race?
18:17 Well, if that's an emphatic sprint win we've seen in this Giro d'Italia, I don't know what is.
18:23 Absolutely magnificent win.
18:26 He has time to look around.
18:27 Might even get his own time gap.
18:28 And there it is.
18:29 Cavendish takes it.
18:30 My word.
18:32 Yeah.
18:32 Just watch this.
18:34 He's in.
18:34 You can't.
18:34 He's unsighted now in the slipstream of Gaviria.
18:37 Just about in that air where it's that vortex straight out.
18:41 And he's got clear daylight.
18:43 Like an absolute rocket ship past Fernando Gaviria as the rest fade.
18:49 Milan is a spent force.
18:50 Dainese already a winner.
18:52 Come up matchup.
18:52 There's the moment.
18:53 Unfortunately, that Ackermann came down.
18:55 But it was never, never good to see.
18:58 And the resultant chaos behind.
19:02 That's where Conrad hits the deck, I think as well.
19:04 And that does split the field.
19:06 But all the sprinters were in front of that with the exception of Pascal Ackermann.
19:09 And besides, as we said before, the race is won a long time before that.
19:12 Fiorelli, Albanese all lunging the bike.
19:15 Alex Kirsch involved.
19:16 Fernando Gaviria once again going too early, you'd have to say.
19:20 And Cavendish live to that.
19:22 Cavendish knows how to pick a wheel, doesn't he, in the sprint.
19:27 Another angle of it here.
19:28 At this point, he's left Milan's wheel.
19:30 And Milan is fading.
19:32 He's just exposed, doesn't he?
19:33 Yeah, and he's just lost that power.
19:36 Yeah.
19:37 In fact, is it Ullo Kersch who's coming up very quickly, isn't it?
19:40 Jake Stewart there as well.
19:41 Yeah.
19:42 So Kersch, I think he ends up finishing second.
19:44 A fast finish in Dainese.
19:45 But he's in a race of his own.
19:46 As soon as he's smelt, got into that space out of the slipstream of Fernando Gaviria.
19:54 Here it is again, straight in.
19:55 He tracks him.
19:58 And then when he opens things up, there's nothing anybody can do about that sheer ferocity,
20:02 that raw speed that he has.
20:04 Punches such a small hole in the air.
20:07 Hungry for victory at 37 years of age.
20:09 And he takes another one.
20:10 38.
20:13 38, sorry.
20:14 Turned 38 at the Giro.
20:14 Of course he did.
20:15 Blimey.
20:16 Yeah.
20:16 One of the oldest men.
20:17 That's where Pascal Ackermann just...
20:19 It touches...
20:19 It's hard to say what caused that.
20:21 But he was already beaten there, Ackermann.
20:25 He was one of the many riders who just assumed that the best wheel there was Milan's.
20:29 And whatever.
20:30 Horrible.
20:30 Milan just couldn't quite find that terminal speed.
20:34 And it was all happening on the other side of the road.
20:36 Yeah, it looked as if Milan was slightly under...
20:38 Just maybe a little bit underpowered and tired.
20:40 You know, it's been a hard Giro d'Italia.
20:42 Consoni there on the right-hand side as well.
20:44 As we look at it on the wheel of Consoni is Matthews.
20:47 Ackermann here at the moment.
20:50 Cavendish just outside of our view.
20:52 But it's a race at that point for the minor placings.
20:55 Quarterman as well.
20:56 He's in the mix there on the right-hand side.
20:57 Is he?
20:58 Just on the right there out of view.
21:00 What a succession of sprints we've had at the Giro.
21:03 And it'll be a long time.
21:04 You'd have to go right back in the years to find out the last time that no sprinter doubled up at the Giro d'Italia.
21:09 Yeah.
21:09 Doesn't normally happen.
21:10 No.
21:10 We've had victories for Caden Groves.
21:14 We've had Alberto Dainese riding to victory.
21:16 Ackermann, Mads Pedersen, Michael Matthews, Jonathan Milan and now Mark...
21:22 And this man, as you rightly say, with all the chaos going on up front.
21:26 Celebrated on his own in the pink jersey.
21:32 We've had the team photo.
21:33 This is the individual photo as well as he crosses the line.
21:36 He just gave Sanchez that little nod.
21:38 Yeah.
21:38 Get on the wheel.
21:39 I'm going to take this.
21:41 I'd like to know how long he was on the front for.
21:43 It was a good K, wasn't it?
21:44 1200 meters.
21:45 Must have been close.
21:46 Must have been close.
21:46 So Cavendish from Kirsch.
21:48 Fiorelli in third place.
21:49 Good result from him, by the way.
21:50 Podium finish for Filippo Fiorelli.
21:52 He's tried and tried and tried.
21:53 Dainese in fourth.
21:54 Alex Krieger sprinting from Absinthe Koenig instead of Stefano Aldani.
21:59 Mark Cavendish, a winner at the Giro d'Italia in 2023.
22:04 Win number 17 at the Giro d'Italia as he takes his leave from this race and says goodbye to it.
22:11 Unless he changes his mind, Mark Cavendish won't come back to the Giro d'Italia.
22:16 I had to wait to the final stage.
22:18 Just really highlighting how difficult it is to win now.
22:22 But having got that win, I think there'll be slight relief.
22:25 Joao Reina finishes in third place for the first time in the Giro d'Italia.
22:31 His first podium finish in a Grand Tour.
22:33 And the first Portuguese podium finisher since 1979 at Agostinho's podium finish at the Tour de France.
22:42 That is a mighty long wait for Portugal to have to see one of their own in third place.
22:48 Now I'm going away.
22:49 You're away?
22:50 Yeah.
22:52 Final instructions there on podium protocol as the Thomas family get ready to step onto the podium in second place.
23:00 24 hours later, Geraint Thomas has had time to digest what happened to him in the individual time trial.
23:06 Not so much what happened to him as what was done to him by Primoz Rog.
23:10 Beat him was just better on the day on that very particular climb.
23:13 Other than that, Geraint Thomas has ridden a Giro d'Italia close to perfection.
23:18 And turned 37 as he did it.
23:21 He would, if it had worked, have been one of the oldest riders in Grand Tour history.
23:25 Once again, Geraint Thomas watches on from one of the lowest leps of the podium
23:31 to applaud the winner of a Grand Tour.
23:34 And it is Primoz Roglic who adds the Giro d'Italia to his collection of victories at the Vuelta.
23:44 At the race that forged his reputation seven years ago when he took a stage victory in 2016
23:50 in an individual time trial.
23:51 And everybody said, "Who is this man? What's he capable of?"
23:55 As we were reminded there by his little gesture that he came from the world of ski jumping.
24:03 Well, he's a master of what he does now.
24:05 Primoz Roglic, a winner at the Giro d'Italia.
24:08 A man who left it late to take victory here in Rome.
24:11 But he's done it.
24:13 Roglic's Giro.
24:14 And his lads embracing it as well, isn't he?
24:17 Wonderful to see.
24:19 The celebrations can begin in Slovenia and with Jumbo-Visma.
24:32 And who knows what might happen at the Tour de France with this team as they go to France in a month.
24:38 Whether Primoz Roglic will join Jonas Vingegaard in a support role
24:41 I think is less certain, probably unlikely.
24:43 The Vuelta might yet be his target, but they've taken the first of the Grand Tours this year.
24:50 And Roglic has that Giro.
24:52 For the next couple of days, he's just going to savour this moment, isn't he?
24:56 This important moment in his career.
24:58 There's your top three, separated by a minute and 15 seconds.
25:00 85 hours, 29 minutes and 2 seconds in the saddle.
25:05 Manoveni also assisting.
25:08 And there we are.
25:09 It's complete.
25:11 Primoz Roglic has added his name to the role call of honours.
25:14 A shake of the hand for the president.
25:16 And this is what he's wanted to do probably for seven years.
25:25 And he's done it.
25:27 He lifts to the loft.
25:28 He's joined the greats of the Giro d'Italia.
25:34 Primoz Roglic.
25:35 With that.
25:41 Yeah.
25:51 Yeah.
25:51 Yeah.
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