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Campenaerts 7th after impressive breakaway effort on stage 8 of Giro d Italia Content provided by Last updated: 4 hours ago
The stage was won by Victor Lafay (Cofidis) ahead of Francesco Gavazzi (Eolo-Kometa) while Attila Valter (FDJ) retained the race lead overall.
On a day where the fight to get into the breakaway was particularly brutal, and saw numerous attempts by our own riders to make it, a group of eight riders eventually made their escape after approximately 55km. Campenaerts, as he d promised prior to the start, refused to miss out and time-trialed his way to bridging the gap in the main move of the day.
Team Qhubeka ASSOS (www.TeamQhubeka.com) sprinter Giacomo Nizzolo took yet another second place Giro d Italia stage finish after being pipped on the line by Caleb Ewan on the stage five in Cattolica.
The European and Italian champion also placed second on stage two of the race, and so today s result sees him take the lead in the points classification and so he will don the
maglia ciclamino on Thursday in stage six.
After a fairly quiet opening 150km of the race day the very technical final 7km, as predicted, required excellent teamwork in order to position Nizzolo in the final kilometre. The Italian saw his opportunity and surged clear on the left-hand side, only to be beaten just on the line by the man from Lotto-Soudal.
Team Qhubeka ASSOS (www.TeamQhubeka.com) sprinter Giacomo Nizzolo took yet another second place Giro d'Italia stage finish after being pipped on the line by Caleb Ewan on