Key Takeaways: 2025 Giro d'Italia Stage 8

Breaking down how a stage with a scorching fast battle for the breakaway was won & how it exposed significant cracks in Primož Roglič's Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe team

After surviving a brutal battle to make the initial breakaway on a scorching-fast opening 90 kilometers of racing, Australia’s Luke Plapp took his first career WorldTour win when he used his incredible power to ride clear of a reduced front group and successfully stick a 46-kilometer-long solo attack. As Plapp rode clear up the road through the rugged, …