Simon Yates extends Giro d'Italia lead with stage 15 win
By PA Sport
Last Updated: 21/05/18 8:37am
Simon Yates has extended his lead in the Giro d'Italia by winning stage 15 while his main rivals struggled on the road to Sappada.
Mitchelton-Scott's Yates won his third stage of the race so far by 41 seconds from Astana's Miguel Angel Lopez, while Team Sunweb's Tom Dumoulin, second overall, was third on the same time as Lopez.
With bonus seconds applied, the 25-year-old Yates now leads Dumoulin by two minutes and 11 seconds.
However, Dumoulin, the world time-trial champion, is expected to take a chunk out of that advantage when the race resumes on Tuesday with a race against the clock starting in Trento.
Team Sky's Chris Froome, who won Saturday's stage 14 on Monte Zoncolan, was distanced on the final two climbs of Sunday's stage and finished part of a group over 90 seconds after Yates.
The current Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana title holder now sits sixth overall, four minutes and 52 seconds down.
