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From stage to stage: how the fifth stage of the 2024 Giro went

The first “runaway” victory arrives at Giro d’Italia 2024thanks to the success of the Frenchman Benjamin Thomasrepresentative of Cofidis, at Genoa-Luccavalid as the fifth stage of the Corsa Rosa.

There are five of them at the start: Ewen Costiou (Arkéa-B&B Hotels), Lewis Askey (Groupama-FDJ) e Mattia Bais (Team Polti Kometa), Simon Geschke (Cofidis) e Manuele Tarozzi (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè). Costiou gets up and is caught by the group.

Geschke makes money 9 points for the Maglia Azzurra by preceding Bais and Askey (Groupama-FDJ) taking the lead at the top of the Bracco Pass.

The group then returns together and the Frenchman Christophe Laporte (Team Visma | Lease a Bike), European champion in Drenthe 2023, suffered a fall after losing control of his bicycle while passing over a manhole. He gets up with obvious wounds on his body.

At the flying finish line in Ceparana, the Australian arrives first Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) ahead of the Dutchman Olav Kooij (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) and to the blue Jonathan Milan (Lidl Trek).

And instead Andrea Pietrobon (Cofidis) to cross the finish line firstIntergiro, earning a 3 second bonus. Behind his back Enzo Paleni (Groupama-FDJ), Benjamin Thomas and the Dane Michael Valgren (EF Education-EasyPost).

TO CamaioreMeanwhile, they are involved in a fall at the height of a traffic island Davide Piganzoli (Team Polti Kometa), Alessandro Tonelli (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè) e Alan Riou (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) e Riley Pickrell (Israel-PremierTech). At the flying finish line in the Tuscan town, Thomas gets the better of Valgren and Paleni.

Just over 20 kilometers from the finish line, the four pacesetters maintain just under a minute’s lead over their pursuers.

In the meantime, a new crash in the center of the group involves Attila Walter (Team Visma | Lease a Bike), Tobias Foss (Ineos Grenadiers), Michael Woods And Nadav Raisberg (Israel-PremierTech).

At the finish line in Montemagno, Thomas passes in front of Paleni and Thomas.

The fugitives held over 40 seconds less than 10 km from Lucca and the group was unable to mend the gap.

There are therefore four of them fighting for the victory, with Pietrobon trying to attack a thousand meters from the finish line but being caught.

Thomas, Olympic bronze medalist in track cycling at Tokyo 2020, overtakes Valgren and can raise his arms to the sky at the finish line for his first career triumph in a Grand Tour.

“It was like a long track chase. In the final, every sprint was taken at full throttle – comments the Frenchman from Cofidis, a team making its first success of the season -. With 10km to go, with 50 seconds, I started to think we could aim for victory. We also had the wind in our favor. In the last kilometer I remembered Carcassonne, where I missed the win in similar conditions, and thought maybe today would be my day. I risked losing when Andrea Pietrobon attacked. Maybe it was destiny to win my first big victory in Italy, where I live, and I’m happy to have achieved the first success for Cofidis. I saw my teammates very happy.”

“Today was an interesting day. The last hour was very fast with a very tense finish – adds the Maglia Rosa Tadej Pogacar -. The breakaway remained in front because it was born late and no one was able to patch things up. Tomorrow will be a stage to be followed carefully so as not to waste time.”