Cadel Evans stays in Giro d'Italia contention after 10th stage Rigoberto Uran took victory in the 10th stage of the Giro d'Italia, with Vincenzo Nibali leading overall. Cadel Evans has held on to second place overall after the Giro d'Italia's first major mountain stage. Picture: Gian Mattia D'Alberto Source: AP OLYMPIC silver medallist Rigoberto Uran soloed to victory in the hilly 10th stage of the Giro d'Italia on Tuesday, as his Sky team leader and race favourite Bradley Wiggins lost more time to race leader Vincenzo Nibali. However, Nibali and fellow victory contender Cadel Evans of Australia ultimately responded in positive fashion, upping the pace in the final few kilometres to leave Wiggins, the Tour de France champion, trailing by over 30secs. Evans, the 2011 Tour de France champion, is second overall only 41secs behind Nibali and must now be considered the Italian's only real rival in the race. Despite losing out to Nibali for the bonus seconds on offer for third, Evans was pleased to hold on to second place overall after the race's first major mountain stage. "It's probably not going to be a big deal at the end, but I would rather not concede time," he said. To maintain my position at this point is still very good. We still have a lot of mountain stages to go. Although aware of Wiggins losing time, the Australian said the only rider he was focusing on was Nibali. I don't know what was going on behind, of course, but Nibali is the rider I have to focus on at this point considering my place in classification.