Cycling
Giro d’Italia stage three preview: Tom Pidcock battles fast men for victory on 160km route to Vlore

An enthralling first two days of the 2025 Giro d’Italia first saw former world champion Mads Pedersen sprint to victory on stage one to claim the maglia rosa ahead of Wout van Aert at the heart of Albania’s capital, Tirana, before a dramatic individual time-trial in the city yesterday. British 21-year-old Josh Tarling produced a brilliant ride to claim victory from Primoz Roglic by one second, though Roglic took the not insignificant consolation prize of the pink jersey from the shoulders of Pedersen – again by just one second, despite the Dane’s determined sprint to the finish line.