Evenepoel destroys Roglic and all his rivals in the opening hours of the Giro d’Italia

The initial doubts of 106th edition of the Giro d’Italia. The great Italian round started rolling this Saturday at adriatic coast, on a route of about 20 kilometers, a good part of which runs along the bike lane, with occasional technical sections and a final climb of three kilometers with sections of more than 5% average slope. The whims of the draw like that evenepoel and roglic They left one after the other separated by a minute.

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The Belgian and the Slovenian are two of the top favorites for the final victory of the Giro d’Italia on May 21 in Rome and their names are listed next to those Foss, Thomas, Kung or Ganna as great candidates to wear the Giro’s first pink jersey. Filippo Gannawho won the opening two hours of the Giro in 2020 and 2021, last year the race did not start with a CRI, he was overtaken by a Remco Evenepoel from another planet, which began to mark its own territory.

The young Belgian cannibal set two best times in the two initial plays, kilometers 10 and 17, with 12 seconds over Ganna in the first set and 15 in the second; while ‘Rogla’ he’s discreet, he’s even a bit ‘stuck’. The Slovenian arrived at the start of the last climb in the last three kilometers, losing 40 seconds behind Evenepoel, a distance that would remain at the end.

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Evenepoel showed no effort in the last 3,000 meters and ended up sweeping the first stage of the Giro d’Italia, hitting the table and telling his rivals that, as he himself pointed out in the preview, this year he will all. in Italy. On the other hand, Roglic is not well, while the Portuguese João Almeida, 4th in the 2020 Giro, maintained his style and achieved a creditable third place; although it is true that only the first of the 21 chapters of the Italian round book have been written and there are still many situations to overcome and many unexpected events to overcome.

the one of Remco Evenepoel on the first day of the Giro it was the 50th victory for a Belgian rider in the Giro d’Italia and 22 years later the leader of Soudal managed to get another Belgian cyclist to wear the leader’s pink jersey in Italy, then Rick Verbrugge I did it in 2001.

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