Ben O'Connor has described the organisers of the Giro d'Italia as "dinosaurs" and the race as "one of the worst organised" after riders forced a change in the route amid miserable weather conditions in the Italian Alps.
Even with 80km shaved off the stage it was still slightly too long for the Australian who suffered during a steep finishing climb to lose time in his pursuit of a place on the podium on Sunday.
Nothing, however, seems to trouble Tadej Pogacar, who won his fifth stage of the 16 so far contested, racing away from the other general classification contenders in the final kilometres of the summit finish at the Dolomites ski resort of Val Gardena.
