It's the first win for his Belgian team since the death of their young rider Bjorg Lambrecht on the Tour of Poland.

Chris Froome has admitted it must be demoralising for rival teams at the Tour de France to try and come up with a plan to unseat the Team Sky rider as leader of the race.

Diego Ulissi of Italy claimed his second win of the Giro d’Italia as Bob Jungels maintained his grip on the race leader’s pink jersey on yesterday’s 11th stage.

Stefano Pirazzi cried tears of joy after winning his first Grand Tour stage in his home race yesterday, but behind him arguments still raged after Tuesday’s controversial Giro d’Italia stage put Nairo Quintana in the pink jersey of race leader.