Tadej Pogacar he is a man of his word. He had promised the Slovenian fans a new venture on the Monte Grappa and so it was.
The captain of UAE Team Emirates won the twentieth stage of the Giro d’Italia with arrival in Bassano del Grappa thus signing the sixth victory in the Corsa Rosa as well as placing a definitive seal on the general classification.
Start in the rain for the group that sees it immediately Lorenzo Germani (Groupama – FDJ) And Davide Ballerini (Astana Qazaqstan Team)capable of propitiating the escape followed shortly after by Nicola Conci (Alpecin – Deceuninck), Jimmy Janssens (Alpecin – Deceuninck), Henok Mulubrhan (Astana Qazaqstan Team), Rubén Fernández (Cofidis), Andrea Vendrame (Decathlon AG2R La Difesa Team), Edward Theuns (Lidl – Trek), Pelayo Sánchez (Movistar Team), Andrea Pietrobon (Team Polti Kometa) And Alessandro Tonelli (VF Group – Bardiani CSF – Faizanè).
Able to take a lead of around four minutes over the pink jersey peloton, the pacesetters fell apart as soon as they began the first climb up Monte Grappa leaving Janssen, Mulubrhan and Sánchez in command, followed closely by Tonelli, Vendrame, Fernandez and Conci.
Under the furious pace of the Spaniard, only Tonelli and Janssen managed to resist, while behind Giulio Pellizzari (VF Group – Bardiani CSF – Faizanè) he returned in a furious manner in view of the mountain grand prix.
In the Grappa descent, only Sanchez and Tonelli managed to resist Pellizzari’s attempts to get ahead before the young man from the Marche took center stage also on the second passage of the historic climb, but suffered a comeback from Pogacar, who was able to get ahead in the hardest section of the climb. climb.
Nothing to be done for the various opponents with Pellizzari immediately forced to give way to the Slovenian, joined immediately afterwards also by Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain-Victorius) who behind him started chasing the pink jersey together with the Colombians Daniel Martinez (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Einer Rubio (Movistar Team) with the aim of making a leap onto the podium thanks to the Welshman’s moment of crisis Geraint Thomas (Ineos-Grenadiers) and Australian Ben O’Connor (Decathlon AG2R World Team).
Nothing to do even for the Lazio player who was caught in the downhill by his direct rivals and had to settle for fourth place behind Daniel Martinez And Valentin Paret-Peintre (Decathlon AG2R The World Team) who completed the podium.
