Esteban Chaves of Orica GreenEdge has taken the win on stage fourteen of the 99th Giro D'Italia.
A Queens Stage of 210kms from Alpago to Corvara saw the peloton altogether for the first forty kilometres.
Then, there was a split and Axel Domont, Hugo Houle (Ag2r La Mondiale), Andrey Zeits (Astana), Nicola Boem, Francesco Manuel Bongiorno, Sonny Colbrelli (Bardiani - CSF), Darwin Atapuma (BMC Racing), Moreno Moser, Nathan Brown (Cannondale), Kanstantsin Siutsou (Dimension Data), David De La Cruz, Matteo Trentin (Etixx-QuickStep), Sergey Firsanov (Gazprom-RusVelo), Stefan Denifl (IAM Cycling), Diego Ulissi, Valerio Conti, Sacha Modolo, Manuele Mori (Lampre-Merida), Tim Wellens, Pim Ligthart, Maxime Monfort (Lot Soudal), Carlos Betancu, José Herrada (Movistar), Damiano Cunego, Giacomo Berlato (NIPPO-Vini Fantini), Ruben Plaza (Orica GreenEDGE), Georg Preidler (Giant-Alpecin), Egor Silin, Rein Taaramae (Katusha), Twan Castelijns, Primoz Roglic (Lotto NL-Jumbo), Christian Knees, Nicolas Roche (Sky), Laurent Didier (Trek-Segafredo), Matteo Busato, Daniel Martinez (Wilier-Southeast) got clear.
This group of 37 riders was 4.19 ahead after 75kms and was at six minutes when Diego Ulissi took the intermediate sprint and Damiano Cunego of Nippo - Vini Fantini took the points on the first climb of the day.
Lopez took the second of six climbs in the Dolomite Mountains - the Passo Sella ahead of Team Sky's Nicholas Roche and led as the break fell apart with only Domont, Zeits, Atapuma, Moser, Siutsou, De La Cruz, Monfort, Cunego, Plaza, Preidler, Kochetkov and Roche left.
With 93kms left, Ruben Plaza struck out and took a 23 second lead over Atapuma, De la Cruz and Lopez.
Plaza took that lead out to 1.52 over the chasing group and more than eight minutes to the peloton as he started on the Passo Gaiu, which was snow capped.
Siutsou and Atapuma caught and passed Plaza as the last two race leaders in Andrey Amador and Bob Jungels were dropped by the group of favourites led by Vincenzo Nibali which was 4.13 down with 39kms left.
Darwin Atapuma of BMC who had got away took the points on the Passo Valparola with a 34 second lead to Siutsou, Preidler, Kruijswijk and Chaves and 1.03 to a group containing Nibali.
Atapuma was descending well and was still 32 seconds ahead with 5.4kms left
The Colombian started on the Muro del Gatto climb and got over that with a thirteen second lead on Kruijswijk and Chaves and Preidler who caught up to Atapuma.
The sprint was on and it Esteban Chaves who won in 6.06.16 ahead of Stephen Kruijswijk of LottoNL-Jumbo who is the new race leader