He Italy is spinning it remains the most open race among the big three. We woke up today to the news Remco Evenepoel He retired as leader of the Giro for testing positive for Covid. He is the third cyclist in the history of the Giro to retire in this situation, he has retired always in 1999 and Eddy Merckx in 1969. In the grand tours he was the tenth cyclist. Within Tour de France they’ve been through it Luis Ocaña, Hinault, Sorensen, Simon, Heulot, Rasmusen and Tony Martinand in the return only one cyclist retired in this way and it was Igor Anton in 2010.
After the withdrawal of Evenepoel, who led by 45 seconds Geraint Thomas, the Welshman remains in the ‘pink jersey’ and the Giro actually remains in a draw. It only takes two seconds roglicfive to Tao Geoghegan Hart and 22 to João Almeidaand in the fight there are still favorites like vlasov, Caruso at 1’28”, Shivakov either Arrived; with a very powerful block, the Ineos. They have a lot of very well placed riders, Roglic seems to be a slight favorite for the high mountains, but there are up to four Ineos riders who can do a great job of wearing Jumbo-Visma and attack on general classification.
However, everything remains difficult Italy is spinning In front. Just highlight the three very high mountain stages starting this Friday with the thirteenth stage ending in crans montana. They can be said to be the three stages of 5,000, more than 5,000 meters density, and this will be the first. Then we have on Tuesday of next week the sixteenth with an end to Mount Bondone and the nineteenth ending in the three peaks of Lavaredo And as if that wasn’t enough, there is the penultimate stage with a time trial of Mount Lussari. Terrible. No favorites can be predicted. It seems that Roglic can, but he has great opposition in the Ineos team, with Caruso which is also increasing. We still have to wait to draw any conclusions.
And about the nine stages that have passed since the Giro d’Italia, I am disappointed in the attitude of those who want to win the Italy spins, that they have been too cautious, with many doubts, with great fear of moving. In general it has been better for Giro workers, for people looking for stages. It has been good in this sense, but a bit disappointing in front of the favourites. There are also quite a few Covid cases and I don’t know if anyone will be affected and they may have hidden it at some point. From the outside this is my opinion.
Source: La Verdad
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