The Giro d’Italia enjoys its second rest day on Monday awaiting decisive events. After two weeks marked by bad weather, shortened stages that caused controversy and the withdrawal of Remco Evenepoel, the great leader, due to covid, everything is still undecided.
The pink race enters the final stretch with favorites Roglic and Geraint Thomas. The high mountain and the stopwatch will decide the name of the pink jersey.
Two weeks for everything to stay the same. The general was tight for 22 seconds between the three candidates, the British Geraint Thomas, the Slovenian and real leader, the Slovenian Primoz Roglic, and the Portuguese Joao Almeida. The leader who wears the pink jersey is circumstantial, the Frenchman Bruno Armirail.
ROGLIC IS THE REAL LEADER OF GIRO
This week will remove all the unknowns, which at the moment are many due to the lack of battle between the favorites, leaving any hint of battle for the final week. Roglic was the favorite for the final victory, as he was only 2 seconds behind Thomas and the route suits the triple winner of the Vuelta better than the Welshman.
Thomas released a significant phrase after the Trans Montana stage, a day in which the favorites held hands at the top, without any attack. “Roglic will be glad the pink jersey lasts longer“said the boss of Ineos, indicating who is the real captain of the Giro in the absence of Evenepoel.
CHRONO IS A VERB
This Tuesday the theoretically fantastic week starts on the stage between Sabbio Chiese and Monte Bondoneof 198 km, super stage with scenarios that accumulate more than 5,000 meters of unevenness and 5 ports.
To start the Passo di Santa Barbara (13 km at 8 percent), then three intermediate stops and to finish the climb to the finish line with a climb of 22.7 km at 6.5 percent with ramps of 16. First time to explain the men of general.
On Wednesday there will be a transfer phase between Pergine Valsugana and Caorlea 192 km route where the sprinters who did not give up on Monte Bondone will appear.
For Thursday the Giro menu offers another mountain stage between Oderzo and Val di Zoldoan intense 160 km day that can be treacherous, because at the end the Coi climb has 5.5 km at 9.5 percent that can hurt your legs, before the final slope to the finish line of 2.3 km at 7.
The main course arrives on Friday with the stage between Longarone and the Three Peaks of Lavaredo.
It will be the chronometer that dictates the final sentence on Saturday with the time trial between Tarvisio and Monte Lussari, 18.6 km. The first 10 km is flat, and the actual climb in the second part of the time trial is 7.5 km with sections of 12 and 15 percent on average, including a hill of 22 at the end of the extreme hardness. This is where the photo of the last podium of the Giro comes from.
The triumphal parade in Rome remains for Sundaywith a flat 115 km stage as tribute to the winner.
Source: La Verdad
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