After a long and slow day of racing at the Giro d’Italia, the finale of stage nine was fast and frenetic, as late attacks from the likes of Julian Alaphilippe and Jhonatan Narváez animated the stage in the closing kilometres.
After Lidl-Trek brought the peloton into contention in the final few hundred metres it looked like it would be their man Jonathan Milan who would take the stage win, but Olav Kooij managed to jump out of the Italian’s slipstream and throw his bike at the line to snatch away the victory.
