Brave Narvaez denied second stage win

Jhonatan Narvaez came agonisingly close to winning his second stage at this year's Giro d'Italia, but his daring late raid was denied metres from the line. 

Narvaez attacked on the final uncategorised climb of the day, carrying a lead of mere seconds on the descent into Naples. 

His lead grew slightly as he entered the final technical final kilometres, but he was chased down the long finishing straight, as the sprinters' teams prevailed behind, with Olav Kooij taking the stage win. 

There was no change overall as the race heads into the first rest day as the GC riders came home as part of a reduced bunch. 

Earlier, fantastic teamwork had helped Geraint Thomas recover quickly from a small crash with around 50km to go, with Tobias Foss, Ben Swift and Connor Swift rallying around their leader and quickly returning him to the peloton.