Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
The Giro starts amidst the wine-covered hills of Bressanone...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Joe Rosskopf leads an escape towards the day's bonus sprint in Bolzano - then they'll sit up...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Rory Sutherland chases for Movistar who are out to control this stage...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Ilnur Zakarin has attacked now, taking Tanel Kangert with him...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Riccardo Zoidl makes a counter-attack, taking Modolo and Henao up the road towards Zakarin, Lopez and Tangert...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Joe Dombrowski attacks and passes Zoidl's group - he'll join Zakarin before anyone else..!
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Nicholas Roche is now attacking too - he'll force a split in the favourites group that's missing Esteban Chaves...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Bob Jungels leads the race up to the Mendola summit, and they'll be joined by others over the top...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Steven Kruijswijk has Valverde and Nibali watching his every move as the racing unfolds...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Damien Howson and Ruben Plaza are trying to draw Chaves up through the groups, but they've lost 35-seconds already...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Dombrowski is loving the moment as he leads Valverde and the Maglia Rosa group down the long descent...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Plaza and Howson are in a panic as they chase the Valverde/Kruijswijk group down to Cles...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
There's no chance of a fat peloton to fill this Trentino landscape today..!
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Zakarin leads the 20-man escape along the valley to the next ascent...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Kangert leads the escape for Nibali with Jungels awaiting his turn to work...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Plaza is using all his strength to maintain or reduce the 35-seconds gap for Chaves...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Kangert leads the escape on to the penultimate ascent - and they've drawn out a 40-second lead now..!
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Chaves is now isolated as he climbs the same mountain with Pozzovivo, Majka, Uran and Atapuma behind him...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Jungels leads Kruijswijk, Nibali, Zakarin and Valverde, forty-seconds ahead of Chaves...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Vincenzo Nibali has been dropped as the battle with Chaves continues unabated...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Rigoberto Uran has also been dropped - he'll lose a mighty 5' 20" today..!
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Zakarin has the most to gain and he's doing most of the work in the trio of escapers...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Kruijswijk has the Chaves group 30-seconds behind him, and so starts to pedal even harder...
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Alejandro Valverde wins stage sixteen to secure 3rd-place overall with two mountain stages to come..!
Giro d'Italia - Stage 16
Esteban Chaves finishes 40-seconds down after a tough, tough day - but he's now sitting in 2nd-place overall..!
