There are cyclists like Tadej Pogacar, Remco Evenepoel, Jonas Vingegaard or Mathieu Van der Poel who created the school. His bravery won the hearts of fans and entered the heads of other cyclists, as seen this Wednesday in 105th edition of Milan-Turin. A race with a profile that suggested the winner could be out of sprint contention, but Alberto Bettiol is responsible for breaking all predictions.
The oldest Italian classic, 177 kilometers apart Rho and Salassawas led by many kilometers of Marco Murgano, Matteo Vercher and Marcel Camprubí. From behind, two teams pull hard to prevent the escape from succeeding, ONE-X and DSM team.
The race will change on the climb to Prascorsano (3.1 km at 6.9% average gradient). To the surprise of UAE teamwho was leading the platoon at the time, Alberto Bettiol He attacked at full speed about 30 kilometers from the finish line. It was a brutal start and after ten kilometers he had a 41 second lead.
In the back is the Bora team one with up to four units tried to cut the difference. The terrain favored the pursuers and Bettiol was punished. From 17″ to 15″ at the finish line, it went to 13″ with 7.4 and 10″ to go with 3.3 kilometers to go, a point where Einer Rubio tHe tried to find a heroism that did not develop, but he destroyed the “peace” of the persecutors.
CLASSIFICATION
1.Alberto Bettiol (ITA/EF Education-EasyPost) 3h54’13”
2.Jan Christen (SUI/UAE Team Emirates) at 7″
3.Marc Hirschi (SUI(/UAE Team Emirates) at 9″
4. Diego Ulissi (SUI/UAE Team Emirates) id.
5. Kevin Vermaerke (USA/Team DSM) id.
6. Gianluca Brambilla (ITA/Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) id.
7.Emil Herzog (ALE/Bora-hansgrohe) id.
8. Martin Marcellusi (ITA/VF Group-Bardiani CSF) id.
9. Nick Schultz (AUS/Israel-Premier Tech) id.
10.Frederik Wandahl (DIN/Bora-hansgrohe) id.
Bettiol entered with an 8″ margin in the final kilometer. The Italian cyclist gave it his all and maintained the gap to enter the finish line with a seven-second margin over the Swiss duo of Jan Christen and Marc Hirschiboth of UAE Team Emiratessecond and third respectively.
The Milan-Turin match is a good appetizer before Saturday’s match of Milan-Sanremoas expected rivalry between Pogacar and Van der Poelin the first cycling monument of the year.
Source: La Verdad
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