Overview

• The Visma–Lease a Bike rider edged Giulio Ciccone in a photo finish on the Limone Piemonte summit to claim the overall lead by four seconds.
• A late multi-rider fall at a roundabout brought down about ten riders; Vingegaard remounted with a bloodied left elbow and still won the stage.
• Axel Zingle, injured in the pileup, has been ruled out for the rest of the Vuelta, and Italian police are probing the theft of several Visma team bikes.
• Giulio Ciccone sits second in the general classification, with David Gaudu third, Egan Bernal fourth and Tom Pidcock fifth after the opening mountain test.
• Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet abandoned following an earlier wet-weather crash as the race now heads to an uphill finish in Ceres for Stage 3 in the Italian Alps.