French rider wins stage seven, his third of 2020 raceJoão Almeida remains in overall lead, 43 seconds clearArnaud Démare earned his second straight stage victory and his third in this year’s Giro d’Italia by winning in another mass sprint on Friday, as João Almeida held on to the overall leader’s pink jersey.
Démare edged Peter Sagan, Michael Matthews and Fabio Felline at the end of the mostly flat 143-kilometre (89-mile) seventh stage from Matera to Brindisi. Démare, a French rider with the Groupama-FDJ team, also won the fourth and sixth stages, which also ended in mass sprints.