Giro d’Italia 2025 LIVE: Stage 7 updates, route and results today

It’s been a day of changeable weather; here are the riders in sunnier climes.

Paul Double, the 28-year-old Grand Tour debutant from Winchester, only reached the WorldTour this year when he joined Jayco-AlUla.

Now he’s the strongest man in the breakaway, into third in the king of the mountains classification, and into the virtual race lead.

He’s got the chance to strengthen that KOM position with more points atop Vado della Forcella, and even win the stage if the break can hold on. Some debut.

Onto the longest climb of the day, the category 2 Vado della Forcella.

It’s 21.6km at an average of 3.6%, reaching highs of 9%.

Alpecin-Deceuninck have issued an update on their rider Juri Hollmann, who went down hard in yesterday’s crash and did not finish the stage.

He has been diagnosed with “a double fracture of the right forearm and a complicated fracture of the right hip,” and will undergo surgery.

Paul Double is absolutely flying, launching off the front, and he nicks the KOM points at the top of Monte Urano, catching his companions by surprise. Tarozzi attempts to chase but the Brit has timed it perfectly.

The breakaway’s advantage has gone out to a more healthy 2:25 now.

The break has just started to tackle Monte Urano.

It’s a tasty climb of 4.6km with a 9.2 per cent gradient ahead, the gap is just under two minutes.

Red Bull are at the front of the bunch, with Ineos Grenadiers and Lidl-Trek close behind.

Intermediate sprints have had a bit of a rebrand at the Giro this year, with the energy giant Red Bull sponsoring a brand new Red Bull KM.

As well as regular intermediate sprints, which offer points for the ciclamino points classification, there will be a daily Red Bull KM on every road stage (so excluding the time trials on stages two and 10).

The Red Bull KM is the kilometre up to an intermediate sprint point, which awards six, four, and two bonus seconds to the first three riders over the line.

Those bonuses could be crucial in the battle for the overall win and add a little bit of extra intrigue to regular road stages.

The breakaway roll over the intermediate sprint at Sulmona without any contest for the points, with Tonelli taking the maximum.

Paul Double is in the virtual overall lead.

The break have 1:35 on the peloton now and are a little over 3km from the intermediate sprint.

With seven riders they’ll mop up all the points.

Lidl-Trek’s Mathias Vacek has done a superb job for his team the last few days and could be rewarded with a chance of his own today.

The white jersey said before the stage, “I feel good, I’ve done really good work the last days. For sure I have it in my head to go for a win today.

“We’ll see what happens because it’s a really hard stage. Some climbers definitely have an advantage above me. I will do my best, keep fighting and see what happens. I believe in myself, I believe in the team, and we still have Cicco for the GC [Giulio Ciccone].”