Giro d’Italia 2025 LIVE: Stage 6 updates, route and results today – UK Times

Dries de Bondt (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) is the first to get moving and there’s a bit of a wait for the whole peloton to start pedalling and come back together.

Today’s sprint finish might be even more jittery after that unpleasant interlude.

Red Bull and Soudal-Quick Step are the worst affected from that crash, with 2022 Giro winner Jai Hindley and Josef Cerny forced to abandon.

The decision has been made to restart, on the outskarts of Nola, with a little under 60km left to race.

The breakaway are allowed up the road and the peloton are all ready to go.

Former Giro winner Vincenzo Nibali is also part of the discussions.

It’s evident that not all the riders are keen to proceed.

When and if the race restarts the breakaway of Paleni and van der Hoorn will be allowed to get up the road to re-establish their original gap, which was around 45 seconds at the time of the neutralisation.

The race directors and UCI commissaires are in conversation at the side of the road to establish what’s going to happen.

Derek Gee is another one of the riders who fell, with part of his skinsuit on his right thigh shredded away. Lots of the riders are dropping the pressure on their tyres to get a bit more grip on these roads – although fortunately they look drier now.

A few different riders, including Roglic, have been in conversation with the race director’s car and there’s now a flag waved to indicate the race will stop, at least for now.

Confirmation that Jai Hindley has abandoned the race. Awful news.

Paul Magnier also hit the deck pretty hard, and now his teammate Josef Cerny looks in a bad way. He’s come to a halt at the side of the road and is helped into an ambulance too – another abandon.

Fingers crossed everyone is on the mend smoothly.

Hindley looked to be one of the first to go down at the front of the bunch, slipping on the wet roads and setting off a domino effect, while at the back there was a separate series of crashes too.

Two crashes in quick succession on some incredibly slippy roads and the race is neutralised as a result.

Richard Carapaz has hit the deck really hard; his skinsuit is all scraped off across his right shoulderblade.

Jai Hindley is down and is helped into an ambulance – fingers crossed that it’s not as severe as it seems. Primoz Roglic has been in discussion with the race director’s car.

On TNT Sports, Rob Hatch and Adam Blythe are debating whether it’s worth the hassle of keeping the maglia rosa today, with a lengthy transfer to tomorrow’s start in Castel di Sangro and a procession post-stage today – including a military escort – to a battleship off the coast at Naples to meet some political bigwigs.

Rumour has it Giorgia Meloni might even be there – she was in Naples earlier to announce that Italy will host the Americas Cup for the first time in 2027.

Bet Primoz Roglic is glad he can just get out of his wet gear and wind down ahead of tomorrow’s big stage.

Nice moment as a Tudor rider – not quite sure who – shoots off the front for a hug with a spectator, a family member or friend who’s made the trip to the roadside.

Paleni takes the points again from Van der Hoorn, while in the bunch Fortunato accelerates briefly to take two more KOM points at the top to add to his lead.