Greig Leach

These three road away from the morning break away planning to fight it out on the final climb up to Campitello Matese. With over 150 kilometers (and seven and a half stage of the Giro) in their legs, Carlos Betancur (AG2R) and Steven Kruijswijk (LottoNL Jumbo) started questioning whether Kristof Vandewalle (Trek Factory Racing) was doing his fair share of the work to stay away. The riders will take turns drafting off of each other, the cyclist behind the lead man will use roughly 30% less energy than the guy with his nose in the wind. Betancur and Kruijswijk didn't want to give Vandewalle a free ride that would allow him to best them on the climb.