Pogacar, the superiority is even greater than the gaps
(Marco Bonarrigo) At 4,400 meters from the legendary Oropa Pantanian finish line of the second stage, Tadej Pogacar avenges the defeat of the first and takes the 107th Giro d’Italia with much more authority than the detachments say.
His UAE Emirates will also be fragile (four remain to drag him in the first part of the climb and three immediately melt away), he is perhaps a little distracted or nervous (slip and risk of being hit after a puncture before changing the bike, the naivety of braking on pedestrian crossings where the wheels lose grip) but the difference in quality between the Slovenian and his opponents seems unbridgeable at the moment.
The Australian Ben O’Connor tries to resist the Martian’s sprint for 150 metres, who should be his main opponent: he will pay dearly for the effort, losing over a minute. The pink jersey Narvaez immediately leaves the scene, he will finish very far away, the chasing group seems only interested in second place. At the top, pedaling hard but never out of speed, Poga gains 27″ on Dani Martinez, Geraint Thomasthe good Lorenzo Fortunato, best Italian and only one in the ten, and the German Lipowitz, Juanpe Lopez loses 35”, Tiberi gets lost and now also has to chase the place in the top ten.
