Il Giro: Evenepoel remains well placed ahead of the ITT

Il Giro: Evenepoel remains well placed ahead of the ITT

Remco Evenepoel will go into the last stage of the race’s first week just eight seconds from the maglia rosa following Saturday’s journey to Fossombrone, a city that Tirreno-Adriatico visited a couple of years ago. While at the front the breakaway prevailed, the World Champion was a protagonist on the final climb of the day, I Cappuccini.

Despite being short, the hill ended up opening bigger gaps between the overall contenders than the Campo Imperatore summit finish, and that was thanks to its narrow roads and steep gradients, which hit a gruelling 19% in some parts.

Cappuccini featured twice on the route, the last time in the final ten kilometers, and it was there that the fireworks came. One kilometer from the top, Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) attacked, and only Remco Evenepoel and the pink jersey responded to that acceleration. Remco didn’t immediately make the catch, but instead kept the margin in check, around three seconds at all times. Then, just as he increased the speed a notch and was about to link up with the Slovenian, another change of pace from the latter increased the gap to ten seconds.

On the descent, the rainbow jersey found himself trailing three men, as two Ineos riders had in the meantime joined Roglic, and he produced an incredible effort in his attempt to limit the losses. Evenepoel left everything out there and even made up some ground, by the time he crossed the line only 14 seconds separating him from the trio.

“It just wasn’t my best day. I tried to follow Roglic and made a mistake by pushing too hard instead of riding at my own pace. The legs didn’t quite feel like on the other days, but there is no need to panic, I just have to remain calm and focused. The Giro is still long. Today was just another valuable lesson that I learned. Fortunately, I still have an advantage of half a minute on the general classification and hopefully on Sunday I will manage to gain more time on the others”, said Remco after the finish.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
4:44:24
2 Derek Gee
Israel - Premier Tech
1:49
3 Filippo Zana
Team Jayco AlUla
1:49
4 Warren Barguil
Team Arkéa Samsic
1:49
5 Carlos Verona Quintanilla
Movistar Team
2:12
6 Mattia Bais
EOLO-Kometa
2:37
7 Toms Skujiņš
Trek - Segafredo
3:51
8 Alessandro Tonelli
Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè
3:56
9 Oscar Riesebeek
Alpecin-Deceuninck
4:00
10 Tao Geoghegan Hart
INEOS Grenadiers
4:34
19 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
4:48
39 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step
6:08
44 Jan Hirt
Soudal - Quick Step
6:41
47 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
7:29
53 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
9:03
77 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
20:36
155 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
24:53
157 Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step
24:53
1 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
33:52:10
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
0:08
3 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
0:38
4 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
0:40
5 Geraint Thomas
INEOS Grenadiers
0:52
6 Tao Geoghegan Hart
INEOS Grenadiers
0:56
7 Aurélien Paret-Peintre
AG2R Citroën Team
0:58
8 Aleksandr Vlasov
BORA - hansgrohe
1:26
9 Damiano Caruso
Bahrain - Victorious
1:39
10 Lennard Kämna
BORA - hansgrohe
1:54
29 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
9:08
36 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
12:16
43 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step
16:06
51 Jan Hirt
Soudal - Quick Step
24:42
95 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
1:01:34
140 Josef Černý
Soudal - Quick Step
1:36:19
148 Davide Ballerini
Soudal - Quick Step
1:40:07
1 Jonathan Milan
Bahrain - Victorious
113 pt
2 Kaden Groves
Alpecin-Deceuninck
100 pt
3 Mads Pedersen
Trek - Segafredo
89 pt
4 Michael Matthews
Team Jayco AlUla
57 pt
5 Aurélien Paret-Peintre
AG2R Citroën Team
33 pt
6 Vincenzo Albanese
EOLO-Kometa
32 pt
7 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
29 pt
8 Toms Skujiņš
Trek - Segafredo
28 pt
9 Davide Bais
EOLO-Kometa
27 pt
10 Stefano Gandin
Team Corratec - Selle Italia
24 pt
14 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
22 pt
1 Davide Bais
EOLO-Kometa
86 pt
2 Thibaut Pinot
Groupama - FDJ
50 pt
3 Karel Vacek
Team Corratec - Selle Italia
36 pt
4 Simone Petilli
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
32 pt
5 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier Egerzeigzaarhka
Trek - Segafredo
26 pt
6 Ben Healy
EF Education-EasyPost
24 pt
7 Aurélien Paret-Peintre
AG2R Citroën Team
22 pt
8 Francesco Gavazzi
EOLO-Kometa
18 pt
9 Warren Barguil
Team Arkéa Samsic
16 pt
10 Alessandro De Marchi
Team Jayco AlUla
15 pt
15 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
9 pt
1 Andreas Leknessund
Team DSM
33:52:10
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
0:08
3 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
0:40
4 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
2:52
5 Thymen Arensman
INEOS Grenadiers
3:01
6 Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes
Movistar Team
4:29
7 Jefferson Alexander Cepeda Ortiz
EF Education-EasyPost
9:07
8 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
9:08
9 Filippo Zana
Team Jayco AlUla
10:25
10 Michel Hessmann
Jumbo-Visma
13:45
1 INEOS Grenadiers 101:38:51
2 EF Education-EasyPost 1:57
3 Bahrain - Victorious 3:03
4 Jumbo-Visma 4:54
5 BORA - hansgrohe 6:30
6 UAE Team Emirates 7:40
7 Soudal - Quick Step 11:22
8 Israel - Premier Tech 17:26
9 Movistar Team 19:45
10 Groupama - FDJ 23:29

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