First retreat at the Giro d’Italia

First withdrawal at the Giro d'Italia

The second stage of the Giro d'Italia è started shortly after 1 p.m. from San Francesco al Campo (Turin), with a lap in the local velodrome.

In the pink jersey is Ecuadorian Narvaez, who yesterday beat German Schachmann and Slovenian Pogacar, the big favorite for the final success of the pink race, in a sprint in Turin.

The arrival of today's stage, uphill at 1,142 meters, at the sanctuary of Oropa (Biella), the scene of the unforgettable feat, in 1999, of Marco Pantani: detached by 45" for a chain jump, he remounted; all going to win solo.

There'è was the first withdrawal, that of Robert Gesink (Visma-Lease a bike), who crashed yesterday in a descent on the Turin hill, and did not è appear at the start of the stage.

The Dutchman suffered a fractured scaphoid. In the same fall è was involved Domenico Pozzovivo who instead took the start regularly.