twin brother Simon’s phenomenal overall win<\/a> in this race last year are all but over.<\/p>\nThe 221km stage to Veliko Tarnovo – the second of three being held in Bulgaria as part of the three-week race’s Grande Partenza – was won in a sprint from a reduced group by Uruguay’s Guillermo Thomas Silva of XDS-Astana, ahead of Germany’s Florian Stork of Tudor Pro-cycling and Italy’s Giulio Ciccone of Lidl-Trek.<\/p>\n
Yates’ team-mates, Jay Vine of Australia and Marc Soler of Spain, abandoned the race after the crash and have both been taken to hospital, UAE team boss Mauro Gianetti told TNT Sports.<\/p>\n
The peloton of about 183 riders approached the right-hand, downhill corner at about 60km\/h.<\/p>\n
Soler was the first rider to go down after both his wheels slid out on the wet corner, causing a huge pile-up, which also saw Britain’s Jake Stewart of NSN Cycling crash. <\/p>\n
Several riders suffered severe skin burn and ripped Lycra in the impact, after which the race was neutralised for several kilometres.<\/p>\n
Similar accidents have occurred at the Giro in recent years, as spring rain affects riders under pressure to not lose time in difficult conditions. <\/p>\n
The hot favourite for the overall pink jersey, Jonas Vingegaard, avoided the crash with 21km to go and formed part of a small breakaway group, which led much of the latter stages.<\/p>\n
He eventually finished 21st with the same time after a larger chasing group caught him in the final few metres. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Adam Yates lost nearly 14 minutes to rivals on stage two of the Giro d’Italia following a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-575178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}