Giro d'Italia Stage 3: Nijmegen > Arnhem, 190kms

Giro d’Italia - Stage 3

Sam Bewley has managed to crash in the neutralised zone...

Giro d’Italia - Stage 3

Looks like another bridge-crossing day - the Giro leaves Nijmegen via the Nelson Mandela bridge...

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Giro d’Italia - Stage 3

Maarten Tjallingii has started another escape on another day..!

Giro d’Italia - Stage 3

The signs are that the peloton is not in the mood to chase...

Giro d’Italia - Stage 3

The Giro settles down to a gentile pace along the dykes and dams of Gelderland...

Giro d’Italia - Stage 3

Bewley has recovered from his crash but needs to make a second bike change...

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Giro d’Italia - Stage 3

Tom Dumoulin has little need to worry today...

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Giro d’Italia - Stage 3

Etixx chases the escape as the gap increases to about nine minutes...

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Johann Van Zyl takes his turn at the head of the escape...

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Giro d’Italia - Stage 3

Three Ag2R riders have crashed on a shiny new roundabout...

Giro d'Italia - Stage 3

Jean-Christophe Peraud is the worst affected - he will have to abandon the race..!

Giro d'Italia - Stage 3

Marcel Kittel grabs a fresh water-bottle on another warm, warm day...

Giro d’Italia - Stage 3

The speed has suddenly shot up with crosswinds waiting to inflict their damage...

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Giro d’Italia - Stage 3

Sasha Sutterlin looks back in despair as he's spat out of the back of the race...

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Giro d’Italia - Stage 3

The peloton is in three clear pieces with Sky leading the surge forwards...

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Giro d’Italia - Stage 3

Jay Thomson has crashed at a narrowing section of the race...

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Elia Viviani makes a quick bike change...

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Tjallingii leads the escape into Arnhem - they still have two-minutes advantage..!

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Giro d’Italia - Stage 3

Eugenio Alafaci leads the peloton with a view to make Nizzolo the winner...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 3

Tjallingii is sensing the chance to win in his homeland - he's unstoppable..!

Giro d’Italia - Stage 3

Marcel Kittel wins stage three after the escape was caught inside the last two-kilometres..

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Marcel Kittel wins stage three of the 2016 Giro d'Italia

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