“I have so many things to say, but let’s let the images do the talking.” Atrocious mockery at the finish line of Jonathan Milan (Lidl Trek), particularly impressed with the progress of the stage. The blue was considered by everyone to be the number one favorite to find an encore after yesterday, and the ease with which he regulated the group in the sprint of the placed, for a tasteless fifth place, only increases the regrets.
The victory of the fifth stage of Giro d’Italia 2024 goes to surprise Benjamin Thomas (Cofidis), capable of triumphing in the sprint after a four-man breakaway of just over 70 kilometres. The Frenchman went to catch up two hundred meters from the finish line Andrea Pietrobon (Team Polti Kometa), who had tried to anticipate the sprint by starting a thousand meters from the banner.
A particular stage, with the, in retrospect, wicked work of the Alpecin – Deceuninck on the Bracco Pass to let some sprinters break away, but with the finish line 110 km from the top there was plenty of space to recover. After the group canceled the first escape attempt, four of them set off at -75, all great pedalers, to whom the platoon gave too much space.
He starts out too diplomatically after his arrival Milan: “In the end we came close, in a certain sense I’m also happy that a track racer like that won Benjamin Thomashe deserves it”.
After the usual compliments, the Italian moves on to compliments for his teammates: “But you know when you get there, you can smell the victory and you feel good, we worked well in the last kilometers, all moving well together, Obviously I’m sorry.”
“The Giro isn’t over today, so in short we’ll have other possibilities and now we’re closing one door and opening another.” The Maglia Ciclamino looks positively towards the future, and then delves into the analysis of the final, not hiding bitterness and attacking, after being pressed a lot, the teams of the other sprinters: “I have many things to say about this, but let’s let the images speak for themselves. We absolutely deployed the whole team, perhaps we lacked a bit of help at the end.”
By the editorial staff of Inbici News24 and OA Sport
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