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Giro d Italia: Nicolas Roche comes close as Bettiol triumphs

  One day after his cousin Dan Martin won his first stage at the Giro d’Italia, Nicolas Roche went agonisingly close to achieving the same feat on stage 18. The Team DSM rider was one of the strongest out of the day’s 23-man breakaway, prominent when the group fragmented under attacks on the lumpy run-in to the finish and attacking several times. However Roche was ultimately forced to settle for a distinguished third place in Stradella, 17 seconds behind the solo winner Alberto Bettiol (EF Education - Nippo). Bettiol has been a strong ally for team leader Hugh Carthy in the Giro and is a former winner of the prestigious Tour of Flanders. He displayed the same qualities that saw him take that Classic on Thursday, riding powerfully on a non-dissimilar race profile in the finale. He was clear with Roche in a small splinter group with 30 kilometres to go, missed a subsequent attack by Frenchman Rémi Cavagna (Deceuninck-QuickStep) when their group was reeled in four kilom

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