Neither falling in the first of multiple crashes nor the frantic chase to regain contact with the front group that followed could keep an ultra-determined Kaden Groves from capturing a long-sought first stage of the Giro d’Italia on Wednesday.
Groves was one of multiple fallers in a mass pileup with seven kilometres to go, sparked, he said, by the combined effect of "a sprint finish and tight corners where we were all going too fast.”
