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Ex-Tour champion Bernal 'stable' after bus accident
The 2019 Tour winner suffered 'multiple lacerations' and was receiving treatment in a clinic, the local transport police said, adding that he ran into the back...
The 24-year-old Colombian won two individual stages and completed the 3,479km course 89 seconds ahead of Italy's Damiano Caruso while Briton Simon Yates was third.
Colombian Bernal, the 2019 Tour de France champion, finished third on the day to keep hold of the leaders' pink jersey with only two stages remaining.
Ineos' Bernal appeared vulnerable for the first time since the race got underway in Turin, losing time in the final climb but he still holds the lead with the race finishing in Milan on Sunday.
The Ineos leader crossed the line alone in the ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo to finish 27 seconds ahead of Frenchman Romain Bardet and Italian Damiano Caruso.
Italy's Giacomo Nizzolo of the Qhubeka team ended his run of 11 second-place finishes in the Giro d'Italia as he sprinted to stage 13 success in Verona on Friday before the race heads for the mountains.
AG2R Citroen rider Vendrame pipped Australia's Chris Hamilton, his final breakaway companion, on the line after the 212km ride from Siena in Tuscany to Bagno di Romagna.
Team Qhubeka's Mauro Schmid won the 162km stage as part of a long-range breakaway while 2019 Tour de France winner Bernal extended his overall lead in Tuscany.
Sagan's Bora-hansgrohe team dominated the final 50km of the 140km race setting a sizzling pace to drop Sagan's rivals before the finale, where the 31-year-old cruised ahead of the reduced field for the win.
Remco Evenepoel burst into the limelight with success in all four stage races that he took part in last season, including the Tour of Poland, before his horror fall.
Last year's winner Egan Bernal has withdrawn from the Tour de France, his Ineos team said on Wednesday, after he fell out of contention in a disastrous mountain stage.
Jumbo-Visma's Primoz Roglic retained the overall lead after the 17km ascent of the Grand Colombier mountain as his key challenger Bernal slipped to more than eight minutes behind in the yellow jersey standings.
South Africa, who won the 2019 Ruguby World Cup, were named team of the year, beating Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool and the US women's football team.
The race, which starts a week earlier than usual on 27 June to accommodate the Tokyo Olympics, has eight mountain stages and three hilly stages and should suit the 2019 champion Egan Bernal and his Ineos teammate Chris Froome.
Egan Bernal clinched victory in the Tour de France on Sunday, parading into Paris safely in the overall leader's yellow jersey, becoming the first Colombian winner of cycling's greatest prize and its youngest in more than a century.
To celebrate a centenary of the iconic race leader's yellow jersey, organisers chose the Belgian capital, home of all-time great Eddy Merckx.