AFP, CAGLIARI, ItalyColombian sprinter Fernando Gaviria on Sunday finished off a cunning tactical move by his Quick-Step Floors team to win the third stage of the Giro d’Italia and secure the race leader’s maglia rosa. Germany’s Rudiger Selig of Bora-Hansgrohe finished a distant second with Italian national champion Giacomo Nizzolo of Trek-Segafredo third. Greipel, an 11-time stage winner on the Tour de France, claimed his seventh Giro stage victory when he powered to victory in Tortoli on Saturday, but his first spell in the maglia rosa proved brief. “I couldn’t fight for the stage win and to keep the jersey,” Lotto-Soudal’s Greipel said. The frontrunners were left unchallenged on the long home straight, with Gaviria making no mistake with an impressive finishing burst that left his few rivals in his wake.

Source: Taipei Times May 08, 2017 16:08 UTC