Almeida blows up the Giro, Thomas leads again and Roglic shows the shortcomings

The Italian Damiano Caruso (Bahrain-Victorius) He explained before leaving that within his team they discussed that this Tuesday actually started Turn aroundwith enough room for the favorites to move and almost apologize to the fans for the lack of competitiveness shown at many stages by next Sunday’s glory seekers in Rome. And it is that on this Tuesday there is more than enough room for the big names remaining in the Giro to act, especially considering the length of the stage (203 kilometers) and its hardness, with up to five climbs and in the final fireworks focused on the last 22 kilometers of the day, the climb to the brutal and merciless Mount Bondoneone of the peaks that contributed to the rise of the legend of ‘Pink Corsa’ by his own measure (22.7 kilometers at an average slope of 6.4% but with a ramp of 16%).

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After the first 60 kilometers of warming up, the stage began to look up in the climb to Saint Barbara. A group of more than 20 runners (including heavyweight cyclists such as Haig, Konbrad, Healy, Swift, Gee, Skujins, Ulissi or the Spanish Verona and Lastra) led the race for many kilometers, while behind them the favorites let them, with a Jumbo-Visma who took center stage.

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Kilometer by kilometer the difference narrows and as the climb to Monte Bondone approaches, the climb to Monte Bondone awaits UAE team from Portuguese Almeida he stepped forward. At 17 kilometers from the finish line, leader of the race, from a breakaway that was completely destroyed, only about 25 units remained in the group of notables, with two minutes remaining. Ineos replaced Jumbo-Visma with a Thomas what was seen on the site and first ulissi and then Arrived they are empty for Almeidauntil one of the Caldas da Rainha, six kilometers from the finish line, attacked. Only Thomas got out of his steering wheel. Roglic did not move. Your partners Cuss He took it as long as he could and you would think that as the Slovenian usually does, he kept his cool and had everything under control, but that was not the case.

Almeida and Thomas opened the way and Roglic stayed with the Irish Eddie Dunbar. Almeida and Thomas gave it their all and Roglic suffered and suffered without getting off the bike. In the last line Almeida he managed to beat a Thomas who accepted defeat on the day to wear the pink jersey again, while Almeida took his first victory of the season and again finished second in the general classification, 18 seconds behind the Welshman. Roglic, who entered 24 seconds behind Almeida, remains third, 29 seconds behind Thomas.

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It’s not a big difference in everything that is lacking in the Giro, but what happened on Tuesday shows that Almeida and Thomas seem stronger in the mountains than a Primoz who has punctured today and where, as sometimes happens, the third week of a grand tour can be very high for you.