Perfectly launched by his teammates Lidl-Trekthe Italian Jonathan Milan has signed an amazing sprint in Cento to achieve a hat-trick of victories in 2024 tour and confirm that he is, even now, the best sprinter of the current Italian round.
Milan, ‘maglia ciclamino’ as the leader of regularity, equals the three partial victories of the ‘maglia rosa’ and its great dominator of the Giro, the Slovenian. Tadej Pogacar (UAE)leader of the general classification with a 2’40” lead over second, the Colombian Daniel Felipe Martínez (Bora).
Milan, 23 years old, showed all his power in the final sprint and, despite the attempts of other sprinters, his victory was indisputable, this time in the Pole Stanislaw Aniolkowski (Cofidis) and the german Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain) as more resistant rivals, although equally unable to catch up with the Italian.
Six of Jonathan’s 10 professional victories have come this season: he debuted in the Return to the Valencian Communitycaught two of the Tyrrhenian-Adriatic and, so far, he has three Giro counting achievements in Andorra (4th stage) and Francaville al Mare (11th). He was also second in Fossano (3rd) and Naples (9th), a sign of his consistency and the solid pedal stroke he has in this Giro.
Before the outcome in Cento, three Italians were the main stars on the stage, Andrea Pietrobon (Polti Comet), Manuel Tarozzi (Bardiani) and his colleague Alessandro Tonellithe brave men who immediately began the day’s escape.
None of them represent a risk to the general classification, so the peloton adopts the standard control protocol, with the teams of sprinters being especially attentive, both interested in eating kilometers without suffering too much wearing and playing with the stopwatch and thereby debilitating the race. morality of the escapees.
Pietrobon, Tarozzi and Tonelli had a maximum advantage of two minutes and their adventure lasted 120 kilometers, about 50 km from the finish line. After several minutes of tense calm, the Bardiani He tried it again with 30 km to go by throwing ahead Martin Marcellusme, who took a 35″ rent with the Belgian Dries De Pooter (Interarché).
After the fall in the middle of the peloton ended without major consequences, the peloton also swallowed Marcellusi and De Pooter and the stage was at the expense of the teams and the fastest and strongest cyclists in the last 10 km. In that field, there’s nothing like Lidl-Trek and Jonathan Milan, who was once again a fantastic stage winner.
Source: La Verdad
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