Giro d’Italia 2025 LIVE: Stage 11 updates, route and results today

They’ve got 1:10 on the peloton, so it’s by no means certain, but this looks a good group.

UAE take control of the pace on the front of the bunch with Filippo Baroncini setting the tempo.

Full list of those riders in the breakaway incoming. Mads Pedersen is on the front in service of Mathias Vacek.

Is this today’s breakaway set? It’s only taken them 78km to get away…

A huge chasing group is coming across to Poels and Kelderman but the peloton has knocked their efforts off. Bilbao, Steinhauser, Vacek, Pedersen, Tarling, Fortunato, and Quintana are all in there.

There’s 2.5km to go until the start of the Alpe san Pellegrino.

Kelderman and Poels have 20 seconds or thereabouts on the bunch, secured on that climb, but this breakaway is by no means secured as more riders attack from behind – including British rider James Knox.

They’re off the descent and now onto around 12km of valley road, the approach to the serious climbing of the day, the Alpe san Pellegrino.

It’s a 13.8km climb averaging 8.8%, but with the final 3-4km averaging to 11% and even hitting 19%.

Wout Poels and Quentin Pacher attack. Romain Bardet latches onto the latter’s wheel, with David Gaudu and Nairo Quantana moving up too.

Wilco Kelderman is the next to respond and bridges the gap up to Poels, who has some daylight between him and the rest. The two Dutchmen have a few metres’ advantage.

They’re into the incredibly picturesque town of Barga, not that they’ll really have much time to take it in.

Well, that’s interesting. There’s a big split in the bunch as they approach this uncategorised climb and Isaac del Toro in the pink jersey goes into domestique mode to drag it out, with Red Bull caught out by the looks of things. Antonio Tiberi is the quickest to react and he’s straight on del Toro’s wheel.

It’s brought back, but that is the big, big problem for Red Bull. They simply do not have the strength in depth to counter UAE, who can make life difficult with four riders in the top 10.

We’re now seeing a different style of rider trying to get up the road, as the rouleurs back off with the day’s behemoth of a climb coming up. Kruijswijk and Azparren were swept up after the intermediate sprint but no-one’s been able to make another move stick since then.

Mathias Vacek, Lidl-Trek’s wunderkind, is the next to come to the front. Soudal Quick-Step are active too, they’ve got Josef Cerny up there too.

There’s another unclassified climb to Barga coming up next. It’s 3.6km at an average of 5.9%. From there, there’s a short descent before the long run-up to the Alpe san Pellegrino, steadily rising until the start of the climb proper.

The TNT Sports reporter on the ground at the start asks Mads Pedersen if he was stupid to pick him for the stage win today, to which he gets a resounding “yes”. “Not as stupid as you look,” the Dane grins, but it’s pretty close, is his assessment.

“Of course I want to gain some points for the ciclamino today,” he adds, but he notes that the fight for the breakaway may mean that the points pre-Alpe san Pellegrino (at Borgo a Mozzano) all escape up the road, and the remaining points come after the climb.

Pedersen has been active so far with that first sprint coming in the first 46km.

Azparren takes the maximum 12 points ahead of Kruijswijk, while another group of escapees led by Alessandro Tonelli hoover up the rest. None for the peloton and Mads Pedersen in the ciclamino gets none.

The riders are absolutely flying at 54km/h, having raced for nearly an hour already.

That duo has been brought back and Azparren and Visma-Lease a Bike’s Steven Kruijswijk have taken their place.

We’re approaching the day’s first intermediate sprint, at Borgo a Mozzano.

Tudor have Yannis Voisard and Soudal Quick-Step Mattia Cattaneo – a revelation in yesterday’s time-trial, finishing fourth – in the breakaway.

Behind them there’s another succession of attacks but it looks like no one wants to be the one to put the work in.

And the fabulous pink Giro d’Italia train returns, making its first appearance of this year’s race as it runs alongside the bunch for a bit.