Without expecting anything in advance, Jos van Emden was part of the escape of the day in the eighteenth stage of the Giro d’Italia. The time trial specialist of Team LottoNL-Jumbo gained an advantage of more than fifteen minutes with the leading group. Van Emden only had to let them go on the last ascent. “I just wasn’t very happy with the fact that I was in the breakaway”, he said afterwards.