They are both in full ascendancy come here Like all chasing groups, they will reach a pass just over 6 kilometers from the finish line. And except for the final acceleration, the peloton seems to have completely collapsed in today’s stage, which is just under 15 minutes, about 8 kilometers ahead of the breakaways.
One more day on the road, your team, Lidl-Trekdid a good job throughout the stage, assuming a good part of the control of the escapees and trying to position their leader in the final stretch of 400 meters, but then Jonathan Milan He did not finish their work.
It gets closer every time Andrea Vendrame to begin the climb on the last pass of the day, with a distance now of more than 30 seconds on their pursuers, the same group as before except Hermans, which is somewhat left behind now. Other smaller groups remain under a minute, while the peloton is now at 14 minutes.
1 | Tadej Pogacar 67h 12′ 02″
2 | Daniel Martínez + 7′ 42″
3| Geraint Thomas + 8′ 04″
4| Ben O’Connor + 9′ 47″
5 | Antonio Tiberi + 10′ 29″
Now the Italian rider of Ag2rwho wanted to escape from flight and placed himself in the middle with the Narvaez and Alaphilippe, which is 20 seconds away. The group of chasers is becoming more and more elastic, while the peloton is now at 13 minutes, with 25 kilometers left to reach the finish line, they are all on a permanent climb.
The Italian was left to sigh Jonathan Milan to achieve his fourth victory in the 18th and penultimate stage of Italy is spinningone day he draws to decide the sprint and where the runner of Lidl-Trek was unable to achieve his goal as a result of Belgian determination and strength Tim Merlierwhich took the glory from him and added his second victory to it Pink Corsa.
The escape will now begin with a small descent, about 7 kilometers, which will take them again to another climb to Sappada Summit, the last day and second category. And the great escape returned, with 6 starting runners in addition to Luke Plappwho was able to take the lead after some health problems that are punishing him now for the Australian of Jayco.
Good news came from the Granada ski resort of Sierra Nevada. Mikel Landa is located next door Remco Evenepoel concentrated at altitude in the Andalusian resort of the Sierra Nevada, where everything happens as expected. “Mikel is fine and training well. He has been in Sierra Nevada for a few days and everything is going as it should. The normal thing is that he goes home on Sunday and then faces the Dauphine“.
Tireless again, the French runner of Soudaltrying to stretch the leading group to increase speed. Narvaez and Steinhauser They managed to stay here, but Hermans, come here and Pelayo They stay a few seconds behind, when there are still 2 kilometers to go to the top of Sella Valcalda.
The various chasers trailing them by around 30 seconds are also climbing, while the peloton still has a few kilometers to complete on the previous descent, which is now 11 minutes apart.
We have up to 6 cyclists on the run! Narvaez, Hermans, come here, Steinhauser, Alaphilippe and Pelayo Sanchez They form the breakaway group, with up to 13 runners in different groups starting as the chasers of the race leader. The peloton, for its part, was quite far behind, 10 minutes behind the breakaway with 40 kilometers to go.
New day of tension in the office Italy is spinning. The survivors of Pink Corsa They now face the final stage of the race, with today’s and tomorrow’s stages being the busiest. This Friday, May 24, is a mid-mountain day, with a route of 157 kilometers, which will increase the tension and speed of the race.
He Italy is spinning can be watched live on Eurosport and Telesportbut you can follow this minute by minute on the website of World of sports.
Welcome to the live narration of this mountain episode, which corresponds to the nineteenth episode of 107th edition of the Giro d’Italia 2024that started with Mortegliano and it ends with Sappada. We have big names in this first big event of the cycling calendar which ends on May 26.
Who will climb to the top of the podium in this nineteenth stage? Let’s get started!
LiveBlog: 2022
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More than a minute difference Andrea Vendrame with the first group of pursuers, which in this case is a Steinhauser who rode alone, now trying to catch the Italian on the difficult part of the climb, which will be his second stage victory in this Giro 2024 for the German boy. And less than 2 kilometers to be crowned Sappada Summitwith a platoon 15 minutes away.