Van der Poel keeps his word: victory and first Giro pink jersey with Bilbao 3rd

the dutch Mathieu Van der Poel (27 years old) is not hiding. He didn’t need it. In the presentation of groups of Italy is spinning He has already announced his intention to wear the leader’s pink jersey as soon as possible and before starting the first round of 105th edition of the Corsa Rosa this Friday the grandson of Raymond Poulidor he openly declared that “the stage is beautiful. I will try to win and win a ‘pink jersey’ ”.

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And the truth is his team, Alpecin-Fenixwell controlled the situation throughout the first day of the tourist 195 kilometers in between budapest Y visegradfor the eleventh time the Giro began away from Italy. Mattias Bais Y Filippo Tagliani They aspired to be protagonists from the beginning and boy did they succeed. They marked a break of just over 180 kilometers with the approval of the large group, until the top teams saw that they were just over nine minutes away, at which point they accelerated to keep them in control.

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They were chased 14 kilometers from the finish line, where the pace of the stage accelerated. The teams of hopefuls that appeared in the first photo of the day took positions, especially the Alpecin-FenixThe group of Van der Poëlwho led the platoon until the last 5 kilometers, in climbing the fort of visegrad.

A climb, with ramps of 5% and a maximum slope of 8%, where there are few attacks and where favorites are pushed to the maximum. He played it from far away, with 3.16 kilometers more, the Belgian Lawrence Naesen. At 2.2 km from the finish line, the German reached his height Lennard Kamna, while from behind they pulled out a calculator. With 1.5 km left, the German runner has a margin of seven seconds. also tried formalinmoment where a combatant Pello Bilbaowhich is always great in Giro.

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painful outcome

The best is yet to come. From behind they appeared as if an ejaculation Mathieu Van der Poel Y Biniam Girmaywith the little sprinter Caleb Evan wants to talk about success with them, but the runner of Lotto Soudal touched the Eritrean wheel and fell to the ground. Girmay, who, like Van der Poel, is making his debut in the Giro, seemed capable of winning the game in the Dutch phenomenon, but Mathieu, on his heels, defeated the member of Intermarketto make history this season in Gent-Wervelgem and this Friday he showed that he’s a runner you really have to look forward to.

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Success and leadership for Van der Poel – third Dutch rider to wear the leader’s jersey on the Tour and Giro after Wim Van Est and Erik Breukink. Van Est was the first Dutch winner in the Giro, in the opening stage in 1953 – who will now try to emulate what he has already done in Tour de France since last year: wear a pink jersey every day you can. This Saturday he can still scratch a few seconds in the time trial. The goal for chapels, arrived Tuesday at Etna volcano with options to defend pink.