Giro d’Italia 2025 LIVE: Stage 12 updates, route and results today

After a slightly disappointing opening week, this is turning into a brilliant Giro for Visma. Van Aert getting his maiden Giro stage win, delivering a fabulous leadout, Kooij sealing a sprint win, and Simon Yates climbing magnificently and up there on GC.

An utterly breathless sprint, huge leadout by Van Aert. Van Uden opened up his sprint early and ultimately four or five riders crossed almost in sync, Pedersen came on strong in the closing stages – but it’s Kooij who takes it!

Van Aert is on the front under the flamme rouge but needs an incredible leadout to deliver Kooij. Pedersen is fifth or so, van Uden up there.

Under the flamme rouge and Visma now lead – Pedersen has been pushed down. Alpecin and Decathlon are there – but there’s been a crash behind, a Polti VisitMalta rider is down and that’s caused some other riders to swerve.

Under the 3km mark and all riders will get the same time as the group they were in, should there be any incidents in the finale.

Lidl-Trek are still glued to the front. Daan Hoole leads. Van Aert is there for Kooij.

Movistar are moving up for Orluis Aular; Israel PremierTech move up for Corbin Strong, who could become the first man from New Zealand to win a Giro d’Italia stage.

Picnic PostNL are there too for van Uden and Pedersen’s purple jersey is ever-present on the front. Lidl-Trek are holding their line.

All the names you’d expect are here: Van Aert, Kooij, Pedersen, Groves, Bennett, Zijlaard, van Uden. Visma have split a little – Kooij was caught out on stage six with Van Aert accelerating too far back in the final kilometre.

Expect madness. Mads Pedersen is well positioned. Visma are on the front, as are Lidl-Trek and Q36.5 for Matteo Moschetti, who needs to stop sprinting irregularly and getting relegated.

We were at 55km/h a minute ago and the pace is ratcheting up further still.

There’s essentially a revolving door now as each team presses up to the front and then rolls back down. A real bottleneck as the road twists right and then left, forcing the riders at the back of the bunch almost to a standstill.

Ethan Hayter is well positioned for Soudal Quick-Step at the moment, protecting French sprinter Paul Magnier. Wout van Aert is up there too. UAE are floating around – del Toro is right at the front, exposed, which feels an enormous error of judgement.