With 30 kilometres to go, Van Kerckhove launched his attack. The young Belgian managed to bridge from a select group to the race leaders. On the final lap, he made a well-timed move and was joined by Nicol\u00f2 Arrighetti. The two worked well together before Van Kerckhove sprinted to victory in strong fashion.<\/p>\n
Sports director Robby Cobbaert looked back on the day with pride. \u201cIt\u2019s a stage we\u2019ve been talking about for weeks, and to come away with the win is fantastic. After the setbacks we\u2019ve had this week, this means a lot. I\u2019m extremely proud of Matisse and the team, and we\u2019ll do everything we can in the coming days to defend the jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With 30 kilometres to go, Van Kerckhove launched his attack. The young Belgian managed to bridge from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,217577,217576,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-645881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-he-beat-his-fellow-escapee-in-a-sprint-a-deux-the-19-year-old-belgian-also-takes-over-the-lead-in-the-general-classification-with-his-victory","tag-matisse-van-kerckhove-has-won-stage-five-of-the-giro-next-gen-in-impressive-style-in-a-demanding-finale","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645881","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=645881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}