Daniel Martínez cements his second place overall on uneventful Prati di Tivo: "We preferred to be conservative and gain seconds in the final sprint"

In BORA - hansgrohe teambus, there's barely anything to complain about this Giro d'Italia. Of course, the loss of strong Florian Lipowitz wasn't part of their plans, but Daniel Martínez keeps on delivering, as he currently sits in second place overall, only behind the overlord Tadej Pogacar. The Colombian confirmed his position of second strongest man of this Giro on Prati di Tivo, where he only lost in a sprint to the Slovenian.

"Our approach today was to focus on Dani Martinez throughout the day. The guys did a good job and, in the finale we were ready for any attacks with 5km to go. That ultimately didn’t happen, so we stayed focused on Dani for the sprint to the line. He did really well there," Bora's DS Enrico Gasparotto praised the Colombian leader.

"After this solid performance, we’ll keep on fighting. In the moment that it became clear that Pogacar wanted the stage win, we preferred to be conservative and gain seconds in the final sprint, based also on the headwind in the finale," he concluded.