Ciccone’s emotional win in the Giro, with Pedrero (3rd) and a halt between the favorites

There are pictures that perfectly depict the brutality of cycling, and the tears of the Italian Giulio Ciccone (27 years old) after being the winner of 15th stage of the Giro d’Italiaof 177 kilometers, in between Rivarolo Canavese and Cogne, summarize how much it will cost to succeed on a great cycling tour. After three years of drought, the corridor Trek-Segafredoreleased after his companion Juan Pedro Lopez lost the leader’s pink jersey on Saturday, once again raising his arms to victory after a difficult and combative stage, in which the Movistar rider Antonio Pedrero graduated third, where Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) kidnapped the top10 from Alexander Valverde and where the favorites rested while waiting to refuel before the decisive and final week of the race.

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The stage lent itself so that things could happen, but amid the exclamations in the peloton the law of consent prevailed, on a day 3,980 meters unevenly, in climbing the three highly demanding ports in the second half of the stage: Pila-Les Fleurs (1st), Verrogne (1st) and the finish at Cogne (2nd). A route design that lends itself to generating leaks, but before they arrive, alarms sound in Ineos teamwhen Richard Carapaz he was involved in a crash with nine other runners. The Ecuadorian and race leader, went to the meadow, but fortunately, he and the rest of those involved were back on the road without much trouble.

On the first ascent of the sun, on the ascent of Pila les Fluersformed a large flight of up to 27 units, including the Spaniards David de la Cruz and Antonio Pedrero. One day when again Mathieu Van der Poel showed and tried, but not at the second ascent of the day that the leak actually began to disappear, with Buitrago, Pedrero, Tusveld and Cicconeto those in the port passage of Verrogne (the highest point of the sun, 1,582 meters) joined them Hugh Carthy. In the back, favorites are limited to scoring themselves.

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The four riders who led the stage had to take extreme precautions in a descent that brought them because of the state of the road, and it was not until the last ascent that the stage was decided. Ciccone, a native of Chieti, is the most compelling and fair winner on stage. He tried it twice. In the first of his attacks, 21 km from the finish line, they touched him Buitrago and Carthynot so when 18 kilometers from the finish line Giulio He hurried again, went alone to the finish line, on his arrival he took a bath and, as usual, he threw his mirror in public. Behind him, at 1’31 ”came the Colombian Buitrago, with a Antonio Pedro who knew how to suffer and far from sinking entered the 3rd, on a day where Movistar was seen.

At 7’48 ”the group of the best arrived, some at the wheel of others, on a new day of breakdown but the favorites decided to take over as a move waiting for the break on Monday and the final week of the Giro, so hard, that the stage reigns on Tuesday and everything is undecided.