Paul Magnier is still only 22, but he's making rapid progress as a sprinter, with his second victory in three days of racing at the Giro d'Italia seeing him go toe to toe with some of the fastest riders in the sport and emerge on top. Such is his improvement; it wasn't long ago that the Frenchman was still trying to make it in cycling as a climber or puncheur, having transitioned gradually from mountain biking to the road between 2021 and 2023 and only found his feet fully as a sprinter when he joined Soudal-QuickStep . Magnier celebrates with his Soudal-QuickStep teammates after the stage (Image credit: Getty Images) That's exactly what his Soudal-QuickStep lead-out allowed him to do on the straight and nervous run for the line in the Bulgarian capital, with the experience of former Milan-San Remo winner Jasper Stuyven being the perfect thing to rely on as the break was caught late and Jonathan Milan launched early.…