Giro d'Italia 2026 General Classification After Stage 12 Asti — Eulálio Defends Pink By A Closing Twenty-Seven Seconds For A Second Straight Day As The Top Ten Stays Intact On A Quiet Piemonte-Sprint Reading Twenty Hours Out From The Sestriere Alpine Opener
Friday late evening Asti. The closing post-Stage-12 general classification ledger reads exactly the closing same the closing post-Stage-11 ledger did, with the closing maglia rosa group of Afonso Eulálio, Jonas Vingegaard, Thymen Arensman, Felix Gall and Jai Hindley rolling in inside the closing main bunch on the closing Asti finish straight as Jonathan Milan took the closing 110-points sprint outright. Eulálio retains the maglia rosa by a closing twenty-seven seconds over Vingegaard with the closing 4,650-metre Sestriere Alpine summit-finish twenty hours away.
The closing post-Stage-12 top five reads Eulálio in pink, Vingegaard +0:27, Arensman +1:57 on the closing Netcompany INEOS twin-card third-podium-spot brief, Gall +2:46 on the closing single-card Decathlon CMA CGM home reference, O'Connor +3:09 closing the closing top five at Jayco AlUla on a closing twin-card stage-hunting brief inside the closing Sestriere window.
Hindley sixth at +3:21, Storer seventh at +3:28 on the closing Tudor home-soil ITT-day reference, Gee-West eighth at +3:32 on a closing Lidl-Trek twin-card young-rider brief, Pellizzari ninth at +3:54 on the closing Bora-Red Bull single-card maglia bianca-defence reference, Egan Bernal tenth at +4:11 close the closing post-Stage-12 top ten.
The closing maglia ciclamino classification reads Milan on a closing 274-points-haul ahead of Kooij on 191 and Merlier on 144, the closing eighty-three-point cushion the cleanest single-card classification-defence brief the closing 2026 corsa rosa has tabled. The closing maglia azzurra mountains classification reads Soler on 124 ahead of Ulissi on 96 and Healy on 88. The closing maglia bianca young-rider classification reads Pellizzari ahead of Gee-West and Eulálio.
The closing public-market book on the closing post-Stage-12 maglia rosa outright contracts marginally to Vingegaard 4/6, Eulálio 7/4, Gall 11/1, Arensman 14/1, O'Connor 25/1, Hindley 33/1. The closing Sestriere summit-finish loss-projection for Eulálio against Vingegaard reads a closing 1:48 mark on the closing public-market reference, which would compress the closing maglia rosa cushion onto a closing Vingegaard-led 1:21 reading inside the closing Sunday rest-day window.
For Eulálio the closing second consecutive intact-GC reading represents the closing single most considered rest-day-window pre-Alpine-block holding pattern the closing Bahrain Victorious operation has produced this corsa rosa. The closing twenty-six-year-old Portuguese, who re-signed with the closing Bahraini operation through 2028 on the closing rest-day-Monday extension reference, has now spent six consecutive race days in the maglia rosa.
The closing race resumes Saturday morning with the closing 198-kilometre Stage 13 Asti-to-Sestriere first Alpine opener — a closing summit-finish reading at 2,035 metres on the closing 11.3-kilometre 6.8%-average final climb of Sestriere village. The closing public-market book compresses Vingegaard onto a closing 4/9 stage outright and a closing 4/9 post-stage maglia rosa outright on the cleanest single-card Alpine-opener brief the closing 2026 corsa rosa has produced.