While race leader Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) dominated the Giro d’Italia queen stage, finishing nearly 47 minutes behind him was Jenthe Biermans (Arkéa-B&B Hotels), who after a remarkable day managed to complete the 222km stage despite falling into a ravine.
In one of the amazing stories of the queen stage, the Belgian suffered what he described as “the heaviest fall of my career” into a 25-metre-deep ravine while descending the Passo del Mortirolo where a real panic set in having not only hurt himself but lost his radio.
