Giro stage 2 temporarily neutralised after mass crash

The Giro d'Italia's stage 2 has been temporarily neutralised following a very nasty crash with 23 km left of the stage, which meant all the race's medical services were occupied with the injured. The race resumed just before the Red Bull KM with 18 km to go. With the two-man breakaway caught a few kilometres earlier, the peloton was readying itself for the Red Bull KM when a crash rippled through the bunch, starting near the front where teams NSN and UAE Team Emirates XRG were amassed. Both teams saw many of their riders fall in the high-speed crash alongside the road's barriers – Mikkel Bjerg was the only UAE rider to miss it – with more than a dozen others also implicated. Adam Yates looked to be one of the worst affected, but despite a bloodied face, the UAE team leader was able to resume. However, teammates Jay Vine and Marc Soler were put into the back of an ambulance, as was Ådne Holter, and Santiago Buitrago was also a confirmed DNF by day's end. The casualty list was expected to grow by the morning of stage 3.