Remco Evenepoel on his way to taking the maglia rosa on stage 9 of the Giro d’Italia (Image credit: Getty Images)
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Geraint Thomas on stage 9 of the Giro d’Italia (Image credit: Getty Images)
Stefan Kung on his way to setting the best time on stage 9, to be later beaten by Geraint Thomas (Image credit: Getty Images)
Primoz Roglic battling for his spot in the GC on stage 9 of the Giro d’Italia (Image credit: Getty Images)
Aleksandr Vlasov riding through Cesena city (Image credit: Getty Images)
Ben Healy, winner of stage 8, on the course of the time trial on stage 9 of the Giro d’Italia (Image credit: Getty Images)
Edoardo Affini of Team Jumbo-Visma on the TT course (Image credit: Getty Images)
Andrea Vendrame of AG2R Citroën Team (Image credit: Getty Images)
The roads were wet for most of the day, making fro cautious cornering and changeable speeds through the starting order (Image credit: Getty Images)
Jake Stewart of Groupama-FDJ (Image credit: Getty Images)
Alexander Cepeda of Team EF EducationEasyPost passing through Cesena (Image credit: Getty Images)
Rohan Dennis (Team Jumbo-Visma) didn’t show his best time trial form on stage 9 (Image credit: Getty Images)
Rohan Dennis (Team Jumbo-Visma) on the stage 9 TT course (Image credit: Getty Images)
Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) was an early race leader (Image credit: Getty Images)
Magnus Cort of EF Education Easypost delivered a solid result (Image credit: Getty Images)
Magnus Cort of EF Education Easypos (Image credit: Getty Images)
Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) was an early race leader (Image credit: Getty Images)
US rider Brandon Mcnulty of UAE Team Emirates (Image credit: Getty Images)
Ben Healy, winner of stage 8, on the course of the time trial on stage 9 of the Giro d’Italia (Image credit: Getty Images)
Stefan Küng of Team Groupama took the race lead before the GC favourites took to the course (Image credit: Getty Images)
Tao Geoghegan Hart of Ineos Grenadiers (Image credit: Getty Images)
Aleksandr Vlasov of Bora Hansgrohe on the stage 9 TT course (Image credit: Getty Images)
Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quickstep) powered to victory on stage 9 of the Giro d’Italia but his winning margin was hardly the dominance shown on the opening stage.
The Belgian champion moved into the maglia rosa but only managed to win by a single second over Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) and two over Tao Geoghegan Hart (Ineos Grenadiers).
Evenepoel could hardly celebrate what was to be his biggest chance of putting a large chunk of time into his rivals, although he managed to gain a more respectable 17 seconds on Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma).
Andreas Leknessund’s time in the maglia rosa came to an end as the Team DSM rider came through in 19th, 1:15 behind Evenepoel.
The Giro d’Italia is still wide open, with Evenepoel in the lead by 45 seconds over Thomas, with Roglič dropping to third at 47 seconds. Geoghegan Hart climbed over João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) into fourth at 50 seconds, while Lekneussund remained in a respectable sixth at 1:07 on the same time as the Portuguese rider.
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