The Australian switched teams for more chances at Grand Tour stage victories and delivered for his Belgian team on stage eight.
(Yuzuru Sunada)
(Image credit: Yuzuru SUNADA)
Victor Campenaerts (Lotto-Soudal) had victory snatched from him after an unfortunate mechanical, which the Belgian says lost him half a minute on the course
The Giro d'Italia 2019 continues on Tuesday May 21 with stage 10, a flat course for the sprinters as the peloton prepares to head into the high mountains later in the week.
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Jonny was Cycling Weekly's Weekend Editor until 2022.
I like writing offbeat features and eating too much bread when working out on the road at bike races.
Before joining Cycling Weekly I worked at The Tab and I've also written for Vice, Time Out, and worked freelance for The Telegraph (I know, but I needed the money at the time so let me live).
I also worked for ITV Cycling between 2011-2018 on their Tour de France and Vuelta a España coverage. Sometimes I'd be helping the producers make the programme and other times I'd be getting the lunches. Just in case you were wondering - Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen had the same ham sandwich every day, it was great.
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