Mathieu van del Poel was imposed in the third stage of the Adriatic Tyrrhenian, which took place this Friday between Monticiano i Gualdo Tadino, 219 miles, in which Wert van Aert defended the lead and Colombians Nairo Quintana, Egan Bernal and Sergio Higuita, who was fourth, are still in the fight.
The race had several entertainers, who almost from the beginning of the fraction flew in search of prominence, pedaled for several hours and came to have a difference over the main lot of more than nine minutes.
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Mark padun, Davide Bais, Tobias Ludwigsson, Guillaume Boivin i Niki Terpstra they were in charge of animating the competition for much of the journey.
Mathieu van der Poel, 98 miles from the finish line, he accelerated and stretched the group. They were trying to take advantage of the winds. then it was Julian Alaphilippe the one who tried it. Caleb Ewan suffered, could not return to the group.
Higuita, Nairo and Egan were attentive to the movements of the general’s rivals. Ewan couldn’t take it anymore and got off the bike. Thibaut Pinot he paid dearly for the front attacks and stayed.
every time the end approached the bet of the escapees was to try to stay on top, fight for victory, but it wasn’t easy.
The income was 2 min 30 s, when the stage was 25 kilometers from the finish line, a difference that went down as the end was near.
When the caravan entered the 19 km by arrival, the rent was only a minute 09 seconds. The casts of the packers were the ones that narrowed the step back the most and the mass arrival was imminent. The escape ended 2 km from the finish line.
Before the 3 km a fall appeared and although they did not go to the floor, the runners of the Inos, Vernal Egan, Pavel Sivakov i Geraint Thomas they lost the wheel of the lot and gave up 38 seconds, the eu forces them to react this Saturday to the queen stage.
The day will be between Terni i Meadows of Tivo, of 148 km, with two mountain prizes, the first at km 106 and the other at the finish line, of 13 kilometers.
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