203 km high mountain stage from Bassano del Grappa to Madonna di Campiglio, four GPM and uphill finish. It will be a battle between the big names
12.56 – the attackers
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4’46 “the advantage of the treads once the descent from Forcella Valbona is finished (Gpm first category, 21.9 km at 6.6%). The 19 attackers are: Argentinian Eduardo Sepulveda and Davide Villella, Dario Cataldo and the Spanish Héctor Carretero (Movistar), the Australian Rohan Dennis (Ineos), the Portuguese Ruben Guerreiro (EF Pro Cycling), Diego Ulissi (UAE Team Emirates), the Australian Ben O’Connor, the South African Louis Meintjes and Eritrean Amanuel Gebreigzabhier (NTT Pro Cycling), Belgian Harm Vanhoucke and compatriot Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal), Swiss Kilian Frankiny (Groupama Fdj), Danish Jesper Hansen (Cofidis), Russian Ilnur Zakarin and Spanish Victor De la Parte (CCC), the Austrian Hermann Pernsteiner (Bahrain – McLaren), the Spaniard Oscar Rodriguez (Astana) and the French Geoffrey Bouchard (Ag2r). The Portuguese Ruben Guerreiro was the first to pass the first category GPM and now is a virtual blue jersey.
12.49 – 19 on the run
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5’11 “the advantage of the 19 fugitives with 118 km to go.
Waiting for the climbs
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In the sixteenth stage of the Giro, the stage number 2000 in the history of the pink race, the men in the classification let go of the breakaway and Tratnik managed to beat O’Connor by detaching him on the last tear. In the final skirmishes between the big names, a good starting point for the Almeida pink jersey who managed to gain 2 “over his rivals in view of the climbs of the seventeenth stage.
Path
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Fraction of 203 km from Bassano del Grappa to Madonna di Campiglio, high mountain stage with four Gpm and uphill finish. You go up the Valdastico briefly to climb the right side of the valley up to Forcella Valbona through Tonezza del Cimone, a very long climb with constant slopes (first category Gpm, 21.9 km at 6.6%). We then face a long descent to Calliano where we climb Monte Bondone from Aldeno (first category GPM, 20 km at 6.8% with peaks of 15%). Then go down to Sarche to reach Terme di Comano and Tione di Trento (through Passo Durone, third category Gpm of 10.4 km at 6%). Final ascent (first category GPM) starting from Carisolo, of 12.5 km with very constant gradients always around 6.5%, the last 2 km substantially flat.
I big
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The pink jersey Joao Almeida (Deceuninck Quick-Step) has a lead of 17 “over Wilco Kelderman (Sunweb), 2’58” over Jai Hindley (Sunweb) and 2’59 “over Geoghegan Hart (Ineos). First of the Italians Vincenzo Nibali (Trek Segafredo), seventh at 3’31 “.
21 October 2020 (change October 21, 2020 | 13:16)
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