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Giro d’Italia 2024: Benjamin Thomas leads home breakaway to deny sprinters
- Sprinters’ teams fail to reel in four escapers before Lucca finish
- Tadej Pogacar leads Geraint Thomas by 46sec after stage five
The French rider Benjamin Thomas outsprinted his breakaway colleagues in Tuscany to win the fifth stage of the Giro d’Italia, giving the Cofidis team their first victory this year.
The four-man break escaped the peloton after the final intermediate sprint of the day, with 80km left to ride, and held off the chasing pack despite the best efforts of the main sprint contenders’ teams. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team-Emirates) still holds the overall lead, 46sec ahead of Geraint Thomas.
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