Giro: Vendrame wins at Sappada in solo breakaway

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 24 - Italy's Andrea Vendrame on Friday won the 19th stage of the Giro d'Italia, a big mountain stage ending at Sappada in Friuli after a solo breakaway that left the pink jersey group 16 minutes adrift.
    The 29-year-old from Conegliano in Veneto broke away from the field on the 157km leg from Mortegliano to Sappada.
    Two time Tour de France winner and two-time runner up Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia kept the leader's pink jersey.
    Pogacar, 25, who won the 2020 and 2021 Tours and came second the next two years to Dane Jonas Vingegaard, and who is aiming to become the first rider to do the Giro-Tour double since the late Marco Pantani in 1998, faces the last big mountain stage Saturday before Sunday's crowning stroll around Rome.
    The Slovenian 'cannibal' has said his lead is big enough for him to save some energy ahead of his Tour bid. (ANSA).