Giro Stage 16: Ten Takeaways From the Queen Stage

Breaking down how the Giro's hardest stage was won and what it told us to expect during the rest of the race

Jan Hirt held off a nearly impossible-to-shake Thymen Arensman to win on the Giro d’Italia’s Queen Stage atop the Santa Cristina climb deep in the Italian Dolomites. Jai Hindley led the GC favorites in a little over a minute later when he outsprinted race leader Richard Carapaz to take an increasingly-valuable time bonus that decreased his GC deficit to…