Dion Smith narrowly escaped a run-in with an Albanian goat on stage 3 of the Giro d'Italia, after the animal ran into the road and jumped at his back wheel on the 160km route that started and finished in Vlorë.
The New Zealand rider was forced into evasive action, however, forced into some mid-May cyclocross and a ride onto the grass, while the riders behind him braked and also avoided the goat, which escaped the bizarre incident similarly unscathed.
