Sprint star Kaden Groves' team have messed up a golden opportunity at the Giro d'Italia while his fellow Australian speedster Sam Welsford got it absolutely right to win the first stage at the Tour of Hungary.
On a day of contrasting fortunes on European roads for two of the best sprinters in the peloton right now, Groves' Alpecin-Deceuninck team did all the early work to put their in-form man into prime position to take his first stage of the Giro following his runner's-up spot on Tuesday.
But when they needed to push on in the later kilometres of the 178km fifth stage from Genoa to Lucca to chase down a four-man breakaway on Wednesday, they left it too late, along with the other sprinters' teams, allowing French world track champ Benjamin Thomas to snatch the biggest road win of his career.
