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Denmark’s Mads Pedersen outsprinted Wout van Aert to win the first stage of the Giro d’Italia in Albania. <\/b><\/p>\n
Britain’s Tom Pidcock finished fifth for his new Q36.5 team, in a race in which the 25-year-old hopes to contend for the coveted overall pink jersey and also win stages.<\/p>\n
But another contender for pink, Mikel Landa of Spain, abandoned the race after fracturing his back in a heavy crash.<\/p>\n
The Soudal-Quick step rider appear to collide with a lampost with 5km to go on the approach to the centre of Albania’s capital city Tirana.<\/p>\n
His team said scans in hospital revealed Landa suffered a “stable fracture of the Th 11 vertebra,” which will require him to “remain in a stable lying position for an extended period of time”.<\/p>\n
Landa will remain in hospital overnight before further assessment.<\/p>\n
Lidl-Trek’s Pedersen will wear pink in Saturday’s second-stage time trial after benefiting from the pace set by his team-mates on the front of the peloton over the final Surrel climb, which saw the pure sprinters in the race dropped from the leading bunch.<\/p>\n
“It’s absolutely amazing, especially after the team work like this, it’s really incredible that the team works that hard and I can pay them back with a win,” he said.<\/p>\n
Pedersen is a highly decorated rider, having won the 2019 Road World Championship, one-day classics and now his seventh Grand Tour stage.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old beat Visma-Lease A Bike’s Van Aert to the line by a wheel – the Belgian is expected to be Pedersen’s main rival for the ciclamino-coloured points jersey. <\/p>\n
An exhausted Van Aert said afterwards: “You only get one or two chances to take pink, but on that last climb I struggled to stay in.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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