Gianluca Brambilla (Etixx-QuickStep) soloed to victory on stage 8 of the Giro d'Italia to Arezzo. The Italian jumped clear on the final climb of the day and built up enough of a lead to take hold of the maglia rosa, as Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin) suffered a terrible day on the bike.
Below are a selection of reactions from today's stage.
Gianluca Brambilla (Etixx-Quickstep) - stage 8 winner and race leader
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This is amazing! My idea at the beginning of the Giro was to focus on today's stage and I've made it but I cannot believe that I've done it. I have to thank Matteo Trentin because he did an excellent job. I was the rider who initiated the breakaway but he did most of the work until I rode away in the steep part of the climb. I'm delighted. Everything is going well for me this year. The birth of my daughter Asia twenty days ago has also changed my life. It's beautiful
Matteo Montaguti (AG2R La Mondiale) - second on stage 8
Today was a tough day. The break took a while to go because it was hard. We were very scared about the wind and it wasn’t an easy thing to do to get into the break. Brambilla was in fantastic form and of course he was up in the overall standings so it didn’t look like they would let us away. Not everyone was co-operating in the break and then he managed to get some advantage in the end. I wanted to do a great job to win the stage, I tried to attack. I wanted to anticipate Brambilla because I know that he is stronger than me on the climb and I was caught in the last sector. Maybe if I’d stayed in his wheel but it is too easy to say now.
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