Giro d'Italia: Van der Poel in pink after winning opener on debut

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Giro d'Italia: Van der Poel in pink after winning opener on debut
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Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel won the opening stage of the Giro d'Italia on Friday and claimed the race's first maglia rosa on his debut in the Italian grand Tour.

Van der Poel, who rides for Alpecin-Fenix, edged Eritrean cyclist Biniam Girmay at the end of a chaotic bunch sprint on the uphill finish to the citadel in Visegrad in the first of three stages in Hungary.

"It's incredible, after the yellow jersey to wear the pink now," he said. "Now we will see what the time trial brings tomorrow. I'm going to try again, for sure. It will be difficult but I'm going to try."Ottawa's Alex Cataford was 70th, 52 seconds of the lead. The 28-year-old Israel Premier Tech rider is competing in his third straight Grand Tour race.

They were caught with a little under 14 kilometres remaining and the stage sparked into life on the five-kilometre climb to the finish.

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