Giro d'Italia favourite Jonas Vingegaard has taken the leader's pink jersey with his third stage win of the race while Australia's former champ Jai Hindley made a significant move towards the podium in Pila.
Double Tour de France champ Vingegaard was in magisterial mood on the Alpine summit of stage 14, looking unstoppable in his bid to become the eighth rider to win all three Grand Tours as he roared away on the final climb to win by 49 seconds from Felix Gall.
But Hindley, helped by his co-team leader for Red Bull BORA-hansgrohe Giulio Pellizzari, battled to third on the mountain top, finishing 58 seconds behind the great Dane Vingegaard to move up one place to fifth in the general classification.