ANDORA: Italy’s Jonathan Milan emerged a popular home winner of the Giro d’Italia fourth stage on Tuesday with race favourite Tadej Pogacar retaining the overall lead. The 190km ride from Acqui Terme to Andora on the Italian Riviera was marred by the race-ending crash of Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay.
While the man who created history as the first black African to win a Grand Tour stage, in the 2022 Giro, was taken off in an ambulance, Pogacar was safely in the peloton hunting down a two-man breakaway. Pablo Munoz and Stefan de Bod had forged to the front early in the stage, but their time in the spotlight was numbered with the peloton…
