Team Garmin-Sharp's defending Giro d'Italia champion Ryder Hesjedal has withdrawn from this year's Giro d'Italia. Hesjedal has suffered on the bike since stage 8; Team Garmin-Sharp to focus on stage victories, team says.

Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) has won his third stage of this year's Giro d'Italia and the 100th race of his professional career.

Team Omega Pharma-QuickStep's Mark Cavendish (Great Britain) powers to sprint victory in stage 12 of Giro d'Italia 2013; Team Astana's Vincenzo Nibali maintains overall Giro d'Italia lead.

Ramunas Navardauskas (Garmin-Sharp) has won Stage 11 of the Giro d'Italia. The Lithuanian soloed away from Daniel Oss (BMC) with slightly more than five km remaining to take the hilly, 182-km ride from Tarvisio to Vajont in 4:23:14.

Ramunas Navardauskas soloes to stage 11 victory in Giro d'Italia 2013; Vincenzo Nibali keeps overall Giro d'Italia lead.

Rigoberto Uran (Sky) has won Stage 10 of the Giro d'Italia. The Colombian surged away from the maglia rosa group with eight km left and held on to win the mountainous, 167-km ride from Courdenons to Altopiano del Montasio in 4:37:42.

Rigoberto Uran climbs to stage victory in Giro d'Italia 2013; Vincenzo Nibali extends overall Giro d'Italia lead.

Team Argos-Shimano's stage winner John Degenkolb has left the Giro d'Italia.

Team Katusha's Spanish rider Angel Vicioso crashed heavily in the final part of yesterday's stage 9 of the 2013 Giro d’Italia.

Makim Belkov has given Katusha its second stage win of the 2013 Giro d'Italia. The Russian jumped into the break of the day and then jumped away from it, soloing home to win Stage 9, a rugged, 170-km ride from Sansepolcro to Firenze, in 4:31:31.