Young French rider Celia Gery surged to victory on stage seven of the women’s Giro d’Italia.<\/p>\n
Lucinda Brand led round the final corner but 20-year-old Gery came off her wheel and outsprinted the Dutch rider to claim her first stage win in the Giro.<\/p>\n
The two were part of a six-rider breakway that managed to hold off the peloton, which finished eight seconds back.<\/p>\n
“It was a bit strange to be there but I was, so I just kept a cool head and went for it,” said Gery.<\/p>\n
Italy’s Chantal Pegolo was third on the 159km stage from Sorbolo Mezzani to Salice Terme, while British riders Millie Couzens and Josie Nelson were ninth and 10th. <\/p>\n
Dutch rider Anna van der Breggen was involved in a crash with 55km to go but recovered to retain the overall lead of the race heading into the final two stages.<\/p>\n
Van der Breggen leads compatriot Demi Vollering by a minute, with Germany’s Antonia Niedermaier one minute and 24 seconds off the lead. <\/p>\n
The penultimate stage of the race on Saturday will be a 105km run from Rivoli to Sestriere.<\/p>\n
It features the highest point of the race, with the riders facing the 2,180m Colle delle Finestre – scene of Giro-winning attacks by both Chris Froome and Simon Yates – before a summit finish at Sestriere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young French rider Celia Gery surged to victory on stage seven of the women’s Giro d’Italia. Lucinda Brand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-623137","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\/623137","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=623137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}