Jonas Vingegaard has moved to within 27 seconds of Afonso Eulálio’s pink jersey after stage 10 of the Giro d’Italia, a 42km time trial in and around the Tuscan town of Massa.However, the outstanding performance of the day was delivered by home favourite Filippo Ganna, who won by a huge margin of almost two minutes to take his eighth Giro stage victory.With both Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe GC contenders, Jai Hindley and Giulio Pellizzari, affected by sickness, Ganna’s Netcompany INEOS team-mate Thymen Arensman took advantage to move himself into podium contention.
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— Giro d'Italia (@giroditalia) May 19, 2026Vingegaard within seconds of pink despite skinsuit dramaVingegaard was clad in the dark blue shade of the maglia azzurra, as leader of the Giro’s king of the mountains competition, but has designs on wearing another colour by the time the race reaches Rome. Because of his status as an official race jersey wearer, Vingegaard was obliged to wear the organisers’ Castelli-manufactured skinsuit, rather than Visma-Lease a Bike’s bespoke Nimbl equivalent.With aerodynamics crucial, especially on a long and pancake flat coastal course, the difference has been calculated as potentially between 30 seconds and a minute.“That was not how we had planned it,” his team-mate Victor Campenaerts told Belgian newspaper Sporza. “We overlooked it a little. The aero coach will probably have something to say about that, but it is what it is.”The situation was not ideal — though race leader Eulálio was in the same situation, wearing the equivalent pink skinsuit — but Vingegaard cut through the wind and noise to finish second-best of the GC contenders, moving to within 27 seconds of the maglia rosa.The Danish rider finished 13th on the stage finishing his effort exactly three minutes slower than stage winner Ganna.Expect Vingegaard to swap blue for pink in the coming days (Luca Bettini / AFP via Getty Images)Having previously won high-profile time trials, such as a dominant victory over Tadej Pogacar in the 2023 Tour de France, this was the third successive Grand Tour in which Vingegaard has arguably slightly underperformed on a time trial, following a ninth place finish in Valladolid last year on the Vuelta, and another 13th in Caen early in the 2025 Tour de France.Tudor’s Michael Storer, for example, a rider with no great time trialling pedigree, finished just five seconds back, while Vingegaard was beaten by Jayco-Alula’s Ben O’Connor, who has traditionally struggled against the clock. Will he struggle to challenge Pogacar in the 26km individual time trial in the Tour’s third week?
