Giro d’Italia 2025 LIVE: Stage 8 outcome and updates as Luke Plapp takes initially Grand Tour win

The 2025 Giro d’Italia continues with a day out for the sprinters after numerous interesting phases in the fight for the basic category.

The GC competitors get a theoretical day of rest on phase 12, a 172km run from Modena to Viadana, however in all possibility will deal with another frenzied day of scrambling for position and attempting to prevent divides as the race prepares for a drag race to the line.

There are 2 classification 3 gets on the menu however all of the climbing remains in the very first half of the phase before a pan-flat surface.

It’s an opportunity for the pure sprinters, the similarity Olav Kooij and phase 6 winner Kaden Groves, to close the space to Mads Pedersenwho leads the points category by a substantial margin and currently has 3 phase wins to his name.

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‘We’re certainly refrained from doing yet’ – Olav Kooij

Let’s speak with today’s phase winner, a really relieved Olav Kooij.

“It is [a relief]I was waiting on this one,” he states. “We became the race, likewise as a group, with Simon remaining in an excellent position, Wout taking a phase win. The other sprints didn’t go right, actually pleased that today we might do it.”

On his leadout, he states, “Only he [Wout] can do it, so to have him as assistance here is amazing. I actually require to thank him and likewise the remainder of the group, they did a great task. You do not wish to be too far [back] because last corner, that’s perhaps why we needed to go a bit earlier than we desired however I might get on the wheel of Casper and pass him.”

On the unanticipated bundle of van Uden, he states, “There’s a great deal of great competitors, you require to beat them all which’s what we did today. We attempt to race our finest every day and go for wins and great GC with Simon. We’re certainly refrained from doing yet.”