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Steinhauser’s Stage Victory Shines in a Giro Marred by Controversies

In a Giro shaken by controversies and from chaos organizational, nothing better than aenterprise of other times to reconcile two-wheel lovers with the pink race. On the Brocon Pass the young German Georg Steinhauser closed an impeccably managed stage in the best possible way, winning with a minute and a half of advantage after a breakaway launched on the descent of the Gobbera Pass. His satisfaction was great, seeing as he hadn’t yet never won as a professional. Behind him the group recovers at the end but on the harder ramps of the last climb Tadej Pogacar responds to Martinez’s attack by launching a peremptory attack and inflicting more than a minute on his rivals in just a few kilometres. At the foot of the podium, however, mini-crisis for O’Connor, who loses about 40 seconds to the blue Antonio Tiberiwho regulates the group behind Pogacar.

Pellizzari first on the Sella Pass

After yesterday’s chaotic stage, in the group there is a great desire to go back to talking about cycling but the route that will take the Giro caravan to the Brocon Pass it won’t be easy at all. In fact, we will have to face the new Cima Coppi, the Sella Pass, and four other important GPMs. With the general classification dominated by Tadej Pogacar, who won yesterday almost by chance, we will see if the race will be animated by unexpected actions. With the Dolomites in the background of Selva di Val Gardena, the 159 kilometers see a immediate attack of Fiorelli and Marcellusi, with the Bardiani men eager to repeat Pellizzari’s almost feat of yesterday. Geschke was overtaken by Scaroni in the climbers’ ranking and wants to be seen, so much so that the group catches up with the two escapees in just a few kilometres.

4 kilometers from the first GPM of the day, he tries Alessandro De Marchifollowed closely by Conci and Sanchez but the tiredness was great: several gregarious men lost contact but the breakaway was resumed anyway, thanks also to the action of the usual Alaphilippe. The last kilometer of the Passo Sella climb sees the attack of Pellizzari, who is forced to battle with Quintana and Alaphilippe to triumph on Cima Coppi: incredibly we arrive at foto-finish and the man from the Marche manages to put the wheel forward. The very technical descent sees a mini-race between the Eritrean Ghebreigzabhier and the specialist Alaphilippe, while in the peloton we continue to lose pieces: the men in the ranking will have very few domestiques at their disposal on the hardest climbs. With 130 kilometers to go, the leading quartet has about 21 seconds from the pursuers while the pink jersey proceeds calmly 46 seconds from the lead.

Repeated attacks

The escape is unable to collaborate as best as possible, so as to allow a Steinhauser and Frigo to get back onto the leading four: everyone’s thoughts, however, are on making the most of the descent before tackling the long climb of the Rolle Pass. Ballerini and Caruso manage to reach the leading group but the peloton he is still just 43 seconds behind. With Dancers who wins easily on the flying finish line in Predazzo, the first ramps of the historic Giro climb are ever closer. The group take a breath, allowing the breakaway to advance by almost two minutes, before UAE Team Emirates began to shoot, largely mending the gap. With 100 kilometers to go, the pace of the pursuers drops furtherallowing the fugitives to extend further: the climb of Passo Rolle proceeds without major emotions until the top of the hill, when Pellizzari manages to beat Quintana in a clearer.

The rain pays off very slimy the asphalt, so much so that even specialist Alaphilippe was forced to apply the brakes more often to avoid flying to the ground. The long descent that leads to the simplest climb of the day, that of Gobbera Pass, favors the work of the group, which nibbles second after second away from the fugitives. The action of Bardet’s DSM has raised the pace of the peloton but he further split the group, with Pogacar joined by Majka who saved energy to play his cards in the last kilometres. The escape is resumed on the last ramps of the climb but not long after there is a new attack: after having taken the points in the climbers’ classification, Ghebreigzabhier he sets off alone, being joined on the descent that leads to the foot of the Brocon Pass by the young German Steinhauser. The leading duo yes divides the points of the InterGiro but the intention is clearly to aim for the stage victory.

Steinhauser believes

With the leading duo a about 1’18” aheadat the head of the group we see continuous changes of position, with various teams trying actions to prevent them from overextending themselves in view of the two passes on the Brocon Pass. A little more than 3 kilometers from the first hilltop, Steinhauser decides to try a solitary action: starting with 34 kilometers of mountains to face is not the best but the German has shown that he is capable of excellent condition. The climb is not easy but both the German and the Eritrean manage to keep a good pace, sharing the GPM points: behind them he returns to show himself Christian Scaroni, eager to pull ahead of Geschke in the climbers’ rankings. The descent is made even more treacherous by the rain but none of the leading men spare themselves: the young German from Ef travels at absurd rhythms despite the fog and leads the group, with only his breakaway companion managing to stay within 35 seconds. Fridge test a solitary action but fails to get back on his head, remaining about 30 seconds from peloton.

Past the flying finish line of Pieve Tesinowe return to face the other side of the Brocon Pass, a climb that is quite manageable at the beginning and then becomes extremely difficult. Only Uae and Ineos have enough followers to try to raise the pace, which makes the young German’s task easier: 10 kilometers from the finish, the group’s delay is 3 minutes, demonstrating that Pogacar today is happy to make others work. Ineos would like to help Thomas regain second place but yesterday the Welsh champion seemed to be in serious crisis: perhaps it was better to limit the damage. Steinhauser continues to stretch and when the hardest part of the climb begins he has more than three minutes from the pink jersey group: the young German does not never won as a professional, doing it in a Dolomite stage would be a great satisfaction. Thanks to Narvaez’s action, the pink jersey group begins to lose pieces: it’s an important change of pace but the German seems capable of not losing too many seconds.

Pogacar attacks, Tiberi is there

After Narvaez runs out of gas, Arensman he carries on his head with Thomas at the wheel and puts a new acceleration: Pogacar only has Majka with him but manages to keep up with the Ineos. The reaction of, however, was less good Ben O’Connorwho loses several seconds when Ghebreigzabhier is joined by the group: to take advantage of his crisis Tiberi trieswho aims for the Australian’s fourth position and responds first to Martinez’s attack, then toyet another shot of Pogacar, who doesn’t want to leave anything to his rivals. The pink jersey inflicts 25 seconds on the group of men in the classification in a few hundred metres, one yet another test of strength of the Slovenian champion.

Meanwhile Georg Steinhauser enjoys the final catwalk and the first stage victory at the Giro but the feeling is that, if he had wanted, the cannibal of UAE Team Emirates could have win this too. However, the satisfaction of the German talent was enormous, as he concluded a stage conducted in the best possible way courage and tactical acumen. Behind him Pogacar doesn’t need to shoot much and finishes with a delay of 1’23”, halving the German’s lead within a couple of kilometres. Behind him, however, little space for attacks: O’Connor is the man in the classification who loses the most, giving up about forty seconds to Antonio Tiberiwho leads the group behind Pogacar and is now close to fourth place.

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Tomorrow’s stage

After a week almost exclusively dedicated to climbers and ranking men, the arrival in Padua will offer a new opportunity for sprinters to take home a stage victory. Before the final catwalk in Rome, the 18th stage will be the prelude to a triptych of very hard stages which could further thin out the patrol of jet men.

The Venetian stage, however, will not be completely flat, given that 17.6 kilometers from the finish there will be a 4th category Gpm, that of Lamon. The approach to the flying finish line in Valdobbiadene will see another small roughnessbefore the descent to the plain.

The last kilometer will be animated by two curves before the 450 meters of straight that could see one group sprint.

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