Jhonatan Narvezs sudden withdrawal from the Giro d'Italia, just a few kilometers into stage 19, was a massive shock that robbed the race of one of its most dominant animators (he secured three stage wins) and Paul Magnier's main contender for the maglia ciclamino. UAE Team Emirates-XRG sports dire...

Volunteers at the Irish Cycling Campaign, who are running guarded bicycle parking at Bloom with their Dublin branch, have said that the facility has been super-busy in the first two days.Volunteers with the Dublin Cycling Campaign and other campaign groups from around the country will be on hand to guard bicycles at Bloom 2026 in the Phoenix Park until Monday, June 1st.The campaign said: Well, its been an amazing experience at our bike parking at Bord Bia Bloom! The first days have been exceptionally sunny, and the bike park has been super-busy!They added: Lots of requests for sun cream, sun hats and water at the Healthy Ireland and Irish Cycling Campaign gazebos and no shortage of interest in our work + our vision for cycling countrywide! A big shout out to our volunteers for all their help, and to all the people on bikes who stopped by for chats!

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The penultimate stage of the Giro d'Italia is complete, with Jonas Vingegaard dominant once again, finishing more than a minute ahead of Felix Gall, Jai Hindley, and Derek Gee to take his fifth stage victory. Behind the fight for the stage win, one of the revelations of the race, Afonso Eullio, suc...

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Rome and a victory parade. There is suspense to come. Dont tune expecting action from start to finish, but there is massive pressure on Jonathan Milan to salvage a sprint win at the end.Stage 20 Review: the stage win for Jonas Vingegaard. Once again Felix Gall tried to follow then thought better of it a few seconds later while the others could not move. Gall was second, Hindley third, the podium in order.The Route: the same as usual, a trip to the coast and then back through the Eur district before laps around Rome.The Contenders: imagine if Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) wins? Because its better than imagining he loses, hauling his carcass around Italy for three weeks and not winning a stage despite being rated among the best sprinters in the world and winning the points competition in this race twice. Hes been close this month, hes got a sold lead-out and has made mistakes before that can be corrected today.Paul Magnier (Soudal-Quickstep) has thrived in this Giro and jumped into every opening hes got. Hes got three wins and the points jersey so can sit up and eat an ice cream if he wants but thats hardly his style.Dylan Groenewegen has been close but thats his problem, the Rockets have a strong squad for the final 5km and the lead-out but their point man isnt the force he used to be.Tobias Lund (Decathlon-CMA CGM) has been close and now gets a team ready to help him again.MilanMagnierGroenewegen, LundWeather: sunny and 29CTV: KM0 is at 4.45pm and the finish is forecast for 6.45pm CEST. Tune in for the sprint finish.Postcard from RomeTodays finishing circuit goes past the Colosseum, the amphitheatre that used to host gladiatorial fights for pleasure of the Emperor and others, something that most people have evolved beyond.One of the traditions was the Emperor could raise a thumb or lower it to seal the fate of a fighter, something that could not happen today.Only one rider who wont see the Colosseum today is Bardianis Enrico Zanoncello. He was thrown off the race after the Milan stage for head-butting another rider. Some brief video footage doing the rounds shows him heading Robert Donaldson of Jayco who crashes hard, sliding at speed. An act of blatant aggression wrote Cycling Weekly.Embed from Getty ImagesOnly did Zanoncello really deserve this instant verso pollice judgement? Its more likely a wave of riders sees GFDJs Paul Penhot collided with Zanoncello and the Italian is left trying to stay upright and in the split second this balancing act sees his neck and head hit Donaldson rather than a move designed to intimidate or destabilise Donaldson, who was after all going backwards having done his lead-out work.If a bigger name rider was involved or just from bigger team things might have been different. See the appeal by Peter Sagan and the UCI after his exclusion from the 2017 Tour de France for the case study. But as a ProTeam reliant on a wildcard invite theres less room for Bardiani to argue back, theyre supposed to gallop away at KM0 and provide animation, not litigation. This does feel a bit Roman.Only so much though. The commissaires at the Giro are not reclining on velvet seats while being fed grapes. Theyre volunteers, often taking unpaid time off work and given a 200 per day allowance, an economy flight to and from the race and the beige chinos/navy blazer uniform and little else. In exchange the privilege to see the race up close. Its not the imperial tribune.It wont be fixed today but given team budgets have soared, even for Bardiani, any rulings can be very expensive for riders and teams on the ruling end. Another Sagan-like incident from 2017 this summer or next and these things happen after an incident, not out of foresight ns there could be calls to professionalise cyclings referees, or if not have some kind of tribunal on stand-by.The post Giro dItalia Stage 21 Preview first appeared on The Inner Ring.

The peloton will navigate the historic streets of Rome on Sunday for the final stage of the Giro d'Italia, where barring any major surprises, Jonas Vingegaard will officially secure the overall victory. The Danish rider confirmed his dominance during the final mountain stage, riding away to his fift...