Giro d’Italia 2025 LIVE: Stage 6 result and updates

1) Kaden Groves (Alpecin – Deceuninck)

2) Milan Fretin (Cofidis)

3) Paul Magnier (Soudal Quick-Step)

4) Max Kanter (XDS Astana)

8) Matteo Moschetti (Q36.5 Pro Cycling)

10) Matevz Govekar (Bahrain – Victorious)

What a day for Alpecin-Deceuninck, who controlled that really well, and Kaden Groves just had a phenomenal turn of speed.

Slightly weird tactics, though, with that early attack by Plowright. Did they know van Aert would chase him down, leaving Kooij forced to wheel-surf?

Either way it allowed Groves to come into the centre and power away. Replays show Matteo Moschetti of Q36.5 squeezed Kooij into the barriers in the final sprint – wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a relegation incoming there.

Van Aert is caught and the sprinters hit the front – Kooij is well positioned but it’s Kaden Groves who powers away and wins!

Plowright goes very, very long – Wout van Aert drops Kooij to chase him but now rides past!

Alpecin have been on the front for most of the last 10km but Decathlon now do a turn.

Fretin, Zijlaard, and more sprinters are up to the front. Kooij is further back but has van Aert to move him up.

That’s so disappointing. It looked like the breakaway’s days were numbered but having a load of clowns run across the road didn’t help, as Taco van der Hoorn lost the wheel and looked disrupted.

We’re set for a sprint finish.

This looks like it could be curtains for the breakaway. 12 seconds of a gap with 3km to go and they can see the breakaway.

Some idiots run across the road, protesting something, and it looks to have disrupted both the breakaway and the peloton.

The approach to the finish line suits the breakaway, with the peloton taking these corners quite gingerly, but the gap is falling now to 22 seconds. The breakaway need to stick at this.

The gap is at 28 seconds now… can van der Hoorn and Paleni start dreaming?

They are absolutely flooring it. Sean Kelly on TNT Sports comms reckons they can do it.

Alpecin-Deceuninck have dragged the breakaway back to within 23 seconds. Olav Kooij is very prominent in this group. He won in Naples last year and fancies doubling up.