Sacha Modolo celebrates victory on stage 13 (ANSA/Luca Zennaro)A late crash held up Alberto Contador, moving Fabio Aru into pink (Cor Vos)
Richie Porte rode the time trial with an injured knee and struggled (Cor Vos)Aru lost the lead, ‘enjoying’ only one day in pink (Cor Vos)Contador took second (and the lead) on a wet day in Veneto (ANSA/Daniel Dal Zennaro)Vasil Kiryienka tastes the local vini after his win (Cor Vos)
An interesting perspective as Martijn Keizer rolls to the start (ANSA/Luca Zennaro)Aru, Landa, Yuri Trofimov and Contador – the main men on stage 15 (ANSA/Claudio Peri)Part of the gruppetto rolls in to the finish at Madonna di Campiglio (Cor Vos)Porte withdrew from the race after losing 27 minutes to the leaders (Cor Vos)
Fabio Aru tried a bold move on Mortirolo, one which ultimately failed (Cor Vos)Steven Kruijwijk, Contador and Landa pass the Pantani monument on Mortirolo (Auletta/Pentaphoto)Landa became the first man to win back-to-back summit finishes since Emanuele Sella in 2008 (Cor Vos)
A scenic view during stage 17 (Cor Vos)The peloton enter Switzerland on the road to Lugano (ANSA/Claudio Peri)The race to the line (Cor Vos)Sacha Modolo celebrates his second stage win of the Giro (Cor Vos)
The grand prize (just the trophy, mind) (ANSA/Daniel Dal Zennaro)A team time trial opened the race. Here’s AG2R La Mondiale on the road to Sanremo (ANSA/Claudio Peri)BMC ride through one of the tunnels on the bike path (Cor Vos)Giant-Alpecin fly past the coastal foliage (Cor Vos)Masters of the discipline, Orica-GreenEdge took the win by seven seconds from Tinkoff-Saxo (Cor Vos)
The first Maglia Rosa of the race, Simon Gerrans, pictured before the first of four days in Liguria (Cor Vos)The tifosi cheer on their heroes (ANSA/Claudio Peri)The peloton en route to Genoa (Cor Vos)Splits in the peloton as the leadout trains take charge for the sprint finish (Cor Vos)Sky’s Elia Viviani timed his sprint to perfection to take his first ever Giro stage win (Cor Vos)
191 riders interrupt a peaceful countryside scene on stage three (Cor Vos)Tinkoff-Saxo and Astana massed on the front for the majority of the stage (ANSA/Claudio Peri)Adam Hansen was in the break on his birthday. It’s his eleventh Grand Tour in a row (Cor Vos)Sestri Levante saw Michael Matthews win in pink once again (Cor Vos)Rosé for the Maglia Rosa (Cor Vos)
Stage four to La Spezia saw Fabio Aru, Alberto Contador and Richie Porte go on the attack (Cor Vos)The race was shattered on the rolling hills of southern Liguria (Cor Vos)Baby-faced Davide Formolo gives the thumbs up after his solo win (ANSA/Dal Zennaro – Peri)Four days in, and a third Orica-GreenEdge rider takes the overall lead. Simon Clarke celebrates (Cor Vos)
Ivan Basso has tipped his ex-teammate Davide Formolo as a future Giro winner (Cor Vos)Sir Paul Smith, designer of the Giro’s jerseys in 2013, snaps a shot of the race (ANSA/Dal Zennaro – Peri)Stage four brought the first summit finish of the race. Contador, Aru and Porte were on the offensive again (Cor Vos)Lampre-Merida’s second year pro Jan Polanc beat his breakmates to the win on Abetone (Cor Vos)Another day, another General Classification leader. Can Alberto Contador keep his pink jersey til Milan? (Cor Vos)
Daniel Ostanek 