Dainese gets the penultimate Giro sprint opportunity

The 17th stage between Pergine Valsugana and Caorle and no hill climb is the last chance for the sprinters to win a stage today Italy is spinning and a new winner 2023 and a new team was added to the list of winners thanks to the pedal stroke and kidney of Alberto Dainese who took a photo-finish finish against Michael Matthews and Milan. Third Italian victory and Dainese’s second in a Giro d’Italia.

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Despite the fact that he is the favorite in the bets of connoisseurs, this is not the day for the king of sprints. Mark Cavendish, who this Monday announced his retirement at the end of this campaign. He had a problem with his bike and Luís León Sánchez had to help him rejoin the peloton before the start, a bad way to start an important day for him, fighting with his bike because it might be his last chance to sprint for stage victory in a Giro. Then he was not among the contenders for the sprint victory because his position was not good in the last 90º corners before the finish line -.he came in 19th-. He also did not arrive in time to fight the final ‘volata’ despite his efforts, the Colombian from Movistar Gaviria, sixth.

The broken breakaway reached 5 km from the start with Charlie Quaterman (Corratec-Selle), Thomas Champion (Cofidis), his fifth breakaway in the Giro, Senne Leysen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and the man from Madrid Diego Pablo Seville (Eolo-Kometa) that reached three minutes at 20 km.

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Despite the fact that they were completely head-to-head, the advantage of the breakaways with respect to the peloton stabilized between 1’30” and 2’30” during the hundred long kilometers they escaped, the teams who were not involved did not allow them to go further and gave a continuation of the persecution, but it was not completely dropped.

34 kilometers from the finish line, the advantage was already reduced to less than a minute thanks to the efforts of Mark Cavendish’s Astana and ten kilometers later it was less than 30″ and already in sight of the group leader. Senne Leysenson of a bart licensethe sports director of Alpecin-Deceuninck, did not give his arm to spin as his fellow escapees were rejoined in the group that Jumbo-Visma is now pulling with 18 kilometers from the finish line.

Despite beating his legs, Leysen delivered an individual time trial with a relentless peloton now controlled by the teams with the best sprint options: Astana (Cavendish), Jayco Alula (Mateo), Bahrain (Milan), DSM (Dainese) and Movistar (Gaviria), theirs. He briefly stretched the gap to a minute with 16 km to go, but the group’s lead on the Belgian ended with 5 km to go. His escape took 192 kilometers.

The first attack on the finish line was carried out by DSM marking the way for Alberto Dainese and with Matthews, Oldani was rolling, also well placed. Although Jonathan Milan, the ‘maglia ciclamino’ of the points, climbed 10 positions in the 200 meters, it was not over and the photo-finish decided that Dainese, the first to launch the sprint, was able to maintain the initiative against Matthews and Milan.

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